[OZAPRS] VHF to HF Gateway for portable use ?

Rob rob.thirkettle at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Dec 6 13:41:21 EST 2008


Hi Geoff Gareth ZL3VP has been doing Scooter to RV for a couple of years he
just uses a HF/VHF TNC with the GATE call sign set to GATE the same as the
scooter GATE,GATE,WIDE2-2 it works really well.

Regards Rob ZL3RX

-----Original Message-----
From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
Behalf Of Geoff
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 1:25 PM
To: 'Australian APRS Users'
Cc: gunter at netlan.com.au
Subject: [OZAPRS] VHF to HF Gateway for portable use ?

Folks,

 

A few of the blokes from the Blue Mountains ARC are planning a trip next
year out to Cameron Corner (Corner of NSW, QLD and SA).

 

There are a couple of motorbikes in the convoy, and what they were looking
at doing was to run APRS on the bikes (VHF) and relay their position via a
mobile VHF to HF gateway in one of the support 4x4 vehicles.

 

Does anyone know of an easy way to achieve a compact gateway?   The only
thing I can think of at the moment is to back-to-back two TNC's, or have a
laptop in the vehicle running an APRS client app that supports gatewaying.
Of course the bike posits would be sent at HF rates whilst this gateway
operation was being conducted..

 

Interested in any ideas I can pass back to the guys..

 

Cheers,

Geoff   VK2XJG

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