Hi John,
We've been following your trip around Australia and enjoy hearing about your adventures. We have been travelling also and have just returned home after a six-week trip to Charters Towers, Qld. Our Swift Explorer 584 has been to the Towers three times now. We left Sydney via the Pacific and New England highways, diverting west at Tamworth. We travelled inland roads to Goondiwindi, Kingaroy and then to Maryborough, Qld. We then travelled to Gander, Moira, Emerald, Clermont before heading onto Charters Towers. Roads have improved since our last trip, although still rough in places.
This brings me to the subject of Swift caravans. Having purchased our Swift caravan eight years ago, we were advised by others that it would notwater, gas or electric, a combination of both, plus ducted heating. The radio was always a problem, difficult to tune in to stations. Audio Insite is a small custom car specialist company in Maryborough, Qld, and I talked with Michael the owner about this problem. He diagnosed that the aerial was not compatible with the Aussie signal and replaced it with a Nissan X Trail aerial model AP199. No more problems since. The radio tunes in, even in remote areas. The Thetford cooking range with oven under has given no problems. The AL-KO suspension with AL-KO's anti sway control works a treat.
