Monday, 10 March 2014

NEW ZEALAND FIRST WEEK

Hello everyone, Its Monday 10th today arrived at our friends Mick & Rita Gannon Te Kuiti. We arrived Wednesday we were met by Stan ZL1SQV who kindly took us to pick up our camper van our home for the month.Stan invited us back to his home. Where we were greeted by his wife Thelma,she had tea ready with hot sausage rolls and Scones with chocolate biscuit.
We had a lovely chat and time was getting late,so we said our goodbyes. Stan insisted in escorting us to our campsite at Orewa. Which felt was very generous of him,We had a lovely night rest after our long journey it was really spooky to think we were 11 hours difference. camper van although small is quite comfortable. We had a really nice spot on the beach. Fred main priority was to fit an antenna to van for the amateur radio operation. We had to visit a warehouse called Bunnings for nuts & bolts.He also purchased some screwdrivers and hacksaw & blades.
OREWA BEACH
I walked over to the super market to buy supplies, while Fred finished off fitting the antenna to the van. Then, it was time to go meet up with Liz & Ron a little later than planed... we managed to find their accommodation quite easily. It was a emotional as we had not seen Liz for some time and not yet met Ron.. We had a lovely chat then walked to the local pub for a meal and chat..We had a lot of years to catch up on.
LIZ, RON, FRED & ANN AT SNELLS BEACH


After the we went back to Liz & Ron's apartment we sat chatting & drinking for time, then we said our good byes.

Fred & I traveled North to Kawakawa and found a A spot to camp for the night.




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  1. Ray & Leonie.11 March 2014 at 10:21

    Hope everything is going well and NZ is living up to expectations. Ray and Leonie

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  2. Unknown30 March 2014 at 06:03

    Hi Fred, Ken Durand here(N4zed). Nice to contact you this morning from here in Georgia on 17m. I run HRD as a rig control and your call came up as an Antarctica station. I have not been able to contact that spot and when I saw your call with Antarctica beside it in my cluster spot I had to try to contact you. Before and after we made contact I had a good 57 signal on you but when our contact came it was a really rough copy...right at the noise level. I knew that the ZL was a New Zealand prefix but HRD said Antarctica....I thought something was new with the prefix...after the contact and some thought and looking around the net I found this page and it confirmed that you were (as you know) in Z-land...LOL ! Have fun...looks like you already are....

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