[OZAPRS] APC10 tracker

Gary Stern vk2zbb at gmail.com
Thu Oct 16 23:51:05 EST 2014


Unfortunately,
there are too many sledgehammers in the Sydney Basin.
I am about to start looking at a weird way of overcoming that.

I do hope the current crop of 50 Watt aprs, are just not dumb trackers !

Gary

On 16-Oct-14 20:09, vk2ycj at bravo.net.au wrote:
> Owen,
>
> Seems like 1 watt APRS from an aircraft at 10,000 feet ASL gives good
> coverage but at ground level in a car it just doesn't make the grade.
>
> Time for a sledge hammer approach and 50 watts in the car :)
>
>
> Jamie - VK2YCJ
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> VK2YMC-8 using the AP510 is on the road between Sydney and Canberra.
>>
>> Track is much more sparse from a car, even though it is still beaconing
>> at the indecent rate of 20s.
>>
>> http://aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&z=9&call=a%2FVK2YMC-8&timerange=172800&tail=43200
>>
>> 73
>> Owen
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