[OZAPRS] HF APRS and BMARC DXpedition
David and Justine Olsen
davejust at bigpond.net.au
Sun Mar 29 09:59:32 EST 2009
Hi Geoff
When will you be in the Simpson? I will be there in June.
> - Band 40m
> - Callsign VK4MDX-4
> - Location Townsville QLD
> - Fulltime/Part Time/On Request Fulltime
No digipeating just iGate, Rx only, no beacon, though that may change
soon.
Also if I can work out how to Rx satellites successfully I plan to do
that as well.
David
VKvMDX
On 29 Mar 2009, at 08:50, Geoff wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Great to see some intense activity on HF APRS here :)
>
> The Blue Mountains ARC is conducting a trip in August out to
> Poeppels Corner
> (corner of VK5 and VK4), and one of the major modes that will be
> used on
> that trip is going to be HF APRS. The trip will involve several
> 4x4's,
> Bikes and even a Model Helicopter or two (fitted with 2.4GHz CCTV
> and an
> APRS tracker)
>
> There will be a special setup in place to take VHF APRS signals
> from the
> convoy and "reverse gate" them to HF (The VHF setups will all be
> configured
> with HF parameters, and the mobile gateway will be set up to comply
> with the
> HF setup)
>
> I'm following the discussion on bands and gates fairly closely, as I'm
> trying to work out which band would be the best to conduct this
> trip on.
> The team do a lot of work on 40m voice, but I had recommended 30m for
> APRS... at the time there were no 40m gates :)
>
> I'd like to start building up a reasonably accurate list of HF
> Gateways for
> VK/ZL - The information on the website is still not quite there yet
> (http://www.aprs.net.au/hf_frequencies.php)
>
> Would the various HF Gate operators mind responding with their
> setup, e.g.
> - Band
> - Callsign
> - Location
> - Fulltime/Part Time/On Request
>
> This will help us in
> a) updating the website
> b) planning for the BMARC trip
>
> BTW I was listening to 7036.5 last night and could hear a couple of
> packet
> stations here in Sydney, but I don't have any TNC connected at the
> moment.
> There was a fair bit of splatter across that frequency from
> adjacent voice
> nets.
>
> Thanks,
> Geoff VK2XJG
>
>
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