[OZAPRS] APC510 tracker

Owen Duffy owen at owenduffy.net
Sun Oct 12 19:43:53 EST 2014


It is AP510, not APC510... apologies.

On 12/10/2014 19:28, Owen Duffy wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> An interesting track this afternoon from VK2YMC-8 who appears to be
> flying Canberra towards Brisbane and from his beacon contents is using
> an APC510 (an inexpensive little hand held tracker).
>
> The track has been excellent, you can look at it aprs.fi or alternative.
>
> I have captured log data from my receiver and  note that from the time
> of take off until no more packets were heard directly by VK2AMW-1 or
> VK2RHR-1, I heard 294 packets, of which 54 were first repeated by RHR
> (ie heard direct from the tracker), and 134 first repeated by AMW. It is
> hard to reconcile the difference as the track was west of both stations,
> and at all times was closer to RHR.
>
> An interesting experiment... well it was to me anyway.
>
> 73
> Owen
>
>
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