[OZAPRS] Spot vs Delorme Inreach

[Peter Illmayer]

Tim

Pretty interesting location you are at.  Tell me, if you got onto a
pushbike and rode  from one end of the island chain to the other, how long
would it be ?  Darn, pity you havent got streetview :-)  Looks kinda
interesting..

Pete..vk2yx/vk8pi


On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 7:22 AM, Tim <timlog at bigpond.com> wrote:

> Hi Gerard, no HF gear with me unfortunately, maybe on one of my rotations
> I could bring my 857 back over with a Tiny Track, antenna is the biggest
> problem, I'm living in a motel for the duration and have been looking at
> options, I'm in an upstairs room with a 16m long wooden railed balcony that
> I could hide a 20m dipole along, might be my only option. I was hoping to
> use the Spot/Delorme for mobile use as I'm out and about every day, getting
> quite some distance from the motel.
> Cheers
>
> Sent from my iPad
> On 15/07/2013, at 11:20 PM, Gerard Hill <vk2io at amsat.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi Tim,
> >
> > Do you have any HF APRS gear with you? If so, you could try 20m APRS
> which is on 14.103 LSB using 1600/1800 Hz tones. There's no-one in VK/ZL on
> there yet, but lots of activity in Europe and some in US. As soon as I get
> a new antenna raised, I'll be on "Net14" too. More info here:
> http://www.bandscommunications.co.uk/
> >
> > Surprised about the SPOT coverage. I thought it was supposed to be world
> wide. I recently got one myself for use overseas.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Gerard - VK2IO
> >
> > On 15/07/2013 3:40 PM, timlog at bigpond.com wrote:
> >> Anyone got any feedback on these two ?
> >> I'm working in the Pacific for a couple of years ( check VK2HLT-15 ) no
> 3G here, so can only send packets when im at the lodge in wifi and pocket
> HF doesn't really fit the bill, sat based seems to be the go, problem is
> Spot appears to not have coverage in my area of the Pacific.. Has anyone
> got a Delorme Inreach to communicate with the aprs network similar to Spot ?
> >> Cheers Tim VK2HLT
> >
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