Spinning & GrinningI’ve been having mixed results with my TinyTrak3 APRS beacon here in Hampton – when I start heading south from Newport News towards Fort Monroe (located at the southern tip of the peninsula), I can’t hit any APRS digipeaters – so my APRS beacon packets don’t go anywhere. Friday I was monitoring the local [...]
Here’s a snapshot of my APRS track across the US – the track is shown in blue – the gaps indicate areas where my radio dedicated to emitting failed to make contact with another radio acting as an APRS relay.
My APRS setup consisted of the following equipment:
ICOM’s IC-T81A
This is a quad band radio (6m, [...]
I got my TinyTrak3 APRS beacon working – this link show’s my latest location:
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=kd7pjq
… I’m extremely excited I got this working.
Other big news – I went to the candy store (a.k.a. Ham Radio Outlet and got the IC-208H for the truck.
The manual is here.