[OZAPRS] Fergy 8 Tractor Trip Across the Simpson

[Darryl Smith]

On Saturday, August 20, 2005, eight intrepid men and their vintage
Ferguson
tractors will start out to cross Austalia's Simpson Desert. 

The owner/drivers are farmers, contractors and tradesmen from Swan Hill,
Shepparton, Walpeup and Young. 

With their support teams, the group intends to take eight days to cross
505km of some of the toughest terrain in Australia, The Simpson Desert.

You can be there whilst they trek to the Birdsville Races by checking in
on
the Tracking WWW site. http://www.ausgpstracking.com.au/

The trip is the brainchild of team leader Des Devereux, a Swan Hill
identity
who has for 20 years been a tireless organiser of events to raise money
for
worthy causes. 

During the trip the team hopes to attract an interest by the public to
raise
money for the National Depression Initiative program called "beyondblue". 

If you have GoogleEarth loaded you can also be there by adding
http://202.173.135.68/ge/ as a 'Network Link' inside the Google Earth
application and tell it to update every 15 minutes (More instructions
available on http://radio-active.net.au/web/teamtrack/googlesetup.html)

Radioactive Networks software is being used in the back end to collect the
GPS positions, and show them. 

The technical details are described on this site -
http://radio-active.net.au/web/teamtrack/white.html

And until things are fully operational you can see the snapshots on this
link http://www.radio-active.net.au/web/teamtrack/live.html


Darryl

P.S. If you see an image on the screen during the event that should not be
there [Like a dialog box] please contact me ASAP...

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Darryl Smith, VK2TDS   POBox 169 Ingleburn NSW 2565 Australia
Mobile Number 0412 929 634 [+61 4 12 929 634 Int] - 02 9618 6459
www.radio-active.net.au/blog/ - www.radio-active.net.au/web/tracking/
 



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