[aprssig] motorcycle mobile tracker

[John Habbinga]

With a Pockettracker you should probably be within about 2 miles of a
digipeater.  I noticed that you are using the path WIDE3-3.  I guess the new
WIDEn-N paradigm is working!

On 5/20/06, bob evinger <wd9eka at evinger.com> wrote:
>
> I completed a 3,860 mile ride about a week ago. Had a pockettracker in the
> trunk of my goldwing feeding a 5/8 antenna. I am seriously thinking I need
> to upgrade to something with more oomph.
>
> I was on the road 8 days, was able to check my findu status with my cell
> phone and with the power out of the pocket tracker it just didnt get it.
> I have an igate at home so I had some reports within my first 10-20 miles.
> I went south from Marshall, IL using state highways to Cairo. Interstate
> south to memphis down to just north of New Orleans then west on I-10 to El
> Paso. up through the Gila national forest, by the VLA near magdalena, NM.
> Into Socorro to Chama across some 10K foot passes into colorado and then
> picked up I-70 east and home.
>
> ON that trip the only obvious places I seem to report were. while at home,
> next one I can verify was Baton Rouge, then I think I showed up  in El
> Paso, TX, then Socorro, nm next one I had anybody spot me at was Hays, KS,
> then I think ST. Louis area and when I got back home.
>
> Are the digis that sparse along my route or do I just need a few more
> watts? If power is an issue, anybody else running m/c mobile with aprs, or
> anyone with opinions on what the ideal output power would be.  I had run a
> tiny tracker with external radio in my car at one point and always had
> good luck with that until I had equipment failure.
>
> I ride the m/c a lot and if I am going to bother to haul a GPS and aprs
> gear on it, I want to at least get a little bit better chance at being
> heard.
>
> Not planning any more big rides for this year but even my sometimes 200
> mile round trips from marshall to indianapolis leaves lots of big holes(
> as in received through my igate, then kb9qjm-10 at cloverdale indiana and
> once in a great while I get relayed to the outside world on the east side
> of Indy.
>
> Woa, this got longer than I had intended. I just need to do something to
> improve the signal but not take up a lot of space, or just pull the aprs
> gear out altogether.
>
> Suggestions???
> bob   m/c aprs  wd9eka-9
>
>
> Bob Evinger EMT-I  WD9EKA/AAR5MG(Army MARS operator)
> The public highway system is not Daytona, and you are not Jeff Gordon.
>
>
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John Habbinga, KC5ZRQ
Lubbock, Texas
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