<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:12px"><div><span>hi Hans, I run HF APRS in the vehicle with a multi band screwdriver antenna mostly on 30 Mx. 10.147.6 MHZ. It works fine and a small black box would be great freeing up the HF rig.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Phil VK2CPR<br></span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On
Monday, 20 October 2014, 21:41, "vk2ycj@bravo.net.au" <vk2ycj@bravo.net.au> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">Hans,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Great to hear from you and that's fantastic news about HF APRS getting<br clear="none">closer with the Ultimate 3. I have spoken to you on email about this in<br clear="none">the past and I have an Ultimate 3 nearly ready to go on HF but without the<br clear="none">multi-band antenna set up yet.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">And having the Ultimate 3 running on 2m is a great opportunity too -<br clear="none">especially for WSPR. Will it do WSPR on 6m as well ?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">As you will see there is some good activity with WSPR on both 6m and 2m in<br clear="none">Australia. The WSPR map 24 hour view shows that ...<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://wsprnet.org/drupal/wsprnet/map"
target="_blank">http://wsprnet.org/drupal/wsprnet/map</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Dom VK2HJ might be a very good tester of the device as he is a very long<br clear="none">term user of APRS on 2m and travels thousands of Km every week in his car.<br clear="none"> I'll pass on a message to Dom now via Facebook.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">All the best, Jamie - VK2YCJ<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Hi all,<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I am designer of the Ultimate3 (a.k.a. U3), an inexpensive QRSS/WSPR<br clear="none">> transmitter kit (see <a shape="rect" href="http://www.hanssummers.com/ultimate3" target="_blank">http://www.hanssummers.com/ultimate3 </a>) available from<br clear="none">> QRP Labs <a shape="rect" href="http://www.qrp-labs.com/" target="_blank">http://www.qrp-labs.com </a>. The kit has a
transmitter and GPS<br clear="none">> interface, and can send various QRSS modes, Hell, and WSPR. In the<br clear="none">> forthcoming v3.06 firmware I've also added Opera and Pi4 modes.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> The kit can do FSK and has precise frequency control using DDS. 300 baud<br clear="none">> HF<br clear="none">> packet with 200 Hz spacing would be no problem. It has GPS an the<br clear="none">> transmitter. So it seems theoretically, I should be able to add APRS<br clear="none">> tracker capability without too much trouble.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I understand HF APRS is popular in Australia because the large distances<br clear="none">> involved mean gaps in 2m coverage. So I thought this would be a good place<br clear="none">> to ask. Two questions, if I may:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Question 1: despite a lot of reading on APRS I haven't figured out what<br
clear="none">> simple message would need to be sent for a tracker. It should presumably<br clear="none">> be<br clear="none">> some text where the callsign and latitude/longitude get inserted. Can<br clear="none">> anyone advise? What simple message needs to be sent? And any other things<br clear="none">> to consider?<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Question 2: once I have a beta firmware version available, is there anyone<br clear="none">> here who has a U3, and AVR programming facilities, and could actually beta<br clear="none">> test APRS in the field (which I cannot easily manage). Even if not... If<br clear="none">> someone is seriously able to test and work with me on this then I can<br clear="none">> consider donating a free U3 kit for the project.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Another comment - I'm working on getting the U3 operational on 2m soon as<br clear="none">> well. See <a shape="rect"
href="http://www.hanssummers.com/ocxosynth" target="_blank">http://www.hanssummers.com/ocxosynth </a>which will soon be<br clear="none">> available<br clear="none">> as a kit too, and hopefully will get the U3 up on 2m.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Thanks in advance, and apologies for the bandwidth<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> 73 Hans G0UPL<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="http://www.hanssummers.com/" target="_blank">http://www.hanssummers.com</a><br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="http://www.qrp-labs.com/" target="_blank">http://www.qrp-labs.com</a><br clear="none">> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">> OZAPRS mailing list<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:OZAPRS@aprs.net.au" href="mailto:OZAPRS@aprs.net.au">OZAPRS@aprs.net.au</a><br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="http://lists.aprs.net.au/mailman/listinfo/ozaprs"
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