Take the plane from Sydney to Christchurch – The flight is
somewhat empty – Just about all the flight got a window seat. I was
actually able to get a GPS lock whilst on the plane – The GPS logs are
in WinAPRS, and also in Waypoint files.

When I got to christchurch,
imigration and customs was easy. I was about 2nd in line for imigration.
It took about 5 minutes to get the
bags – Quite quick really. New Zealand customs were more interested in
food rather than any other imports. As soon as I went through customs, I
found a guy with a NZART sign – Turned out he was John Walker.

John turned out to be the editor of the NZART journal named Break-In. He
took me the short distance to Steve Davis’ house in Upper Riccarton. Steve
turned out to be about the age I thought he would be, but was taller. I
also met his wife Libby a little while later. He has a 3 year old, and a
13 year old.

I just had a little time to relax. Steve went back to work. He got back
from work about 6:30 after I had eaten tea
with his family. Turns out his daughter had scouts to go to, and
that she wants to be a Queen’s scout just like his mother.

That evening we had the first of my New Zealand talks at the Christchuch
05 meeting. It went well, with about 50 people present. Afterwards we
played a bit of APRS with some trackers with Steve, and a guy from the
University of Cantabury.

On getting back to Steve’s place afterwards I logged on, finding out about
the BT phone connectors.