[aprssig] motorcycle mobile tracker

[bob evinger]

I am not sure I understand the last comment about the paradigm working. 
I havent been following things real closely for a while due to stressors 
from work(and wondering if I'll have one the next day) and usually just 
scan the subject lines. I have seen some of the 
coments about the new paradigm and to some extent something about wide2, 
are you saying that I was riding in areas where the "new" was possibly 
filtering me out?

Just checked my igate logs and what I see on RF here in east central 
illinois/west central Indiana and the bulk of the traffic is using some 
form of a wide 3 in this area. In this area I am an Igate the next closest 
ones that I am aware of are at least 40 to 50 miles away.

Trying to get educated.

2 mile range would definitely explain a lot of what I am seeing, an saw 
on my trip. I have had the tracker in there off and on for the last year 
and a half or so and its pretty much been problematic from the beginning 
with the pockettracker.

My local area when the bike is parked at work sometimes once in 8 hours I 
will be received by 
our local high profile digi that is probably 8 to 10 miles from the 
parking lot.

Bob Evinger EMT-I  WD9EKA/AAR5MG(Army MARS operator)
The public highway system is not Daytona, and you are not Jeff Gordon.

On Sat, 20 May 2006, John Habbinga wrote:

> 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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