[OZAPRS] Spot vs Delorme Inreach

[Peter Illmayer]

Awesome Tim.....still does look like a neat place....not forever :-)


On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Tim <timlog at bigpond.com> wrote:

> Hi Peter, distance along the road is about 30k. Terrible road though ! You
> wouldn't want to ride your bike along it, heavy traffic and the road
> surface is completely shot, think outback potholed track with traffic
> congestion.. Hence why I'm there, working for a civil construction company
> rebuilding the road and bridges.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 29/07/2013, at 6:44 PM, Peter Illmayer <peter at illmayer.com> wrote:
>
> 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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