[OZAPRS] APC510 tracker

[Justin Albury]

I tracked Micheal in both directions of his trip and was in contact via SMS along the way.  I am very impressed with the performance of the unit.  FIY it is running the latest firmware with the audio fix and 2 letter call sign fix too.

Justin
VK2HJA

-----Original Message-----
From: OZAPRS [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On Behalf Of Owen Duffy
Sent: Sunday, 12 October 2014 7:28 PM
To: Australian APRS Users
Subject: [OZAPRS] APC510 tracker

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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