Te Weraiti where ‘695 is situated is on private land approximately 0.5km north along the ridge from Civil Aviation’s Secondary Surveillance Radar (SSR) (the “golf ball”), and 5.2km north of the SH29 road summit. SSRs interrogate a transponder on each aircraft to obtain flight data additional to bearing and distance obtained from Primary Radars.   Further info   SSR

Te Uku Wind Farm with 28 turbines totalling 64 Megawatts (MW) on the Wharauroa Plateau adjacent to where our ‘5675 repeater is sited. Each wind turbine is supported by a 130.5m high tower manufactured in Korea, and topped by a Siemens 2.3MW generator made in Denmark. Construction was completed in March 2011, at a cost of $200 million. The wind farm which is controlled from Meridian Energy’s Hydro and wind control centre in Wellington covers an area of approximately 200 hectares (2.0km2) on private land, and is jointly owned by WEL Networks and Meridian Energy.