[aprssig] motorcycle mobile tracker

[Cap Pennell]

Yeah, the PT may not give enough oomph, and a digipath of WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1
would likely work better mobile.
Good luck.
73, Cap KE6AFE
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[mailto:aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org]On Behalf Of John Habbinga
  Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 20:58 PM
  To: TAPR APRS Mailing List
  Subject: Re: [aprssig] motorcycle mobile tracker


  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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