[OZAPRS] APRS from an airliner: keeping it simple

[Gary Stern]

I tracked last year BNE > SYD from the last row of a 737.
https://aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&z=11&ts=1548201600&te=1548288000&call=a%2FVK2ZBB-10
Yes I was in the window seat or the starboard side (if that makes any
difference).
I don't believe there was onboard wifi (though I can't be 100% sure on
that).

Gary
vk2zbb

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 5:31 PM <vk8mt at hamradio.org.au> wrote:

> Hi Carlos
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> A window seat does help, and a USB Power Bank (especially if you tired
> device and are watching a movie at the same time)!
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> There are some satellite dead spots in certain parts of Australia (just
> south east of Darwin was one) and some countries do not allow internet
> access whilst flying over their air space.  This was noticed whilst flying
> from Singapore to Dubai last year. (I think India was one of them).
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> Cheers
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> Mal
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