Sites in Wellington ?

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ZL2ABN
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Sites in Wellington ?

Unread post by ZL2ABN »

Hi, I am 3/4 of the way to purchasing / building a Blue RX to setup in Paremata, about 20k north of Wellington. However I am keen to make sure that it would make a valid contribution to the network before I commit.
Does anyone have any knowledge of existing or proposed stations in the Wellington area ?
Manukau heads obs
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Re: Sites in Wellington ?

Unread post by Manukau heads obs »

here is a list of stations in NZ
http://en.blitzortung.org/station_list. ... ew+Zealand
there was one in wellington but it no longer is operational
so would be good to get one there again
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tgsnoopy
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Re: Sites in Wellington ?

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I didn't realise the Blue was out yet. Might have to pull finger and organise one.
41south
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Location: Wellington

Re: Sites in Wellington ?

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Hellooooooooooooo............... (listens for echo) :)

Would like to put another system in Welly (yep sold my Red a couple or 3 years back). What's the system blue availability like?
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Good as far as I know. The red is sitting about 3m from me, but I've kind of lost interest in the system these days die to their mishandling of this blue upgrade/lack of info/changing from needing 3 detector triangulation to needing 5.
41south
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Re: Sites in Wellington ?

Unread post by 41south »

Thanks, nice to see you are still around :)

I just did the 'cover my area' thing - down around 3500 way, must be a damn long list! These folks have never been great at the supply side of things have they. Well I'll see what I can find out about blue kits now that I'm back in a position to host one - and Welly seems to be missing from the map.

Cheers