[aprssig] motorcycle mobile tracker

[Eric Weber]

The pocket tracker just does not have enough power...
I'd use an HT....(Grab an old ht from a flea-market)
Just the 5 watt goose from the ht will surprise you. 
I would also grab a Comet antenna...with either a
"trunk-lip" mount, or if you have the surface area, a
solid mount....
And I would also change my path to wide1-1,wide2-2...

You would still have the 3 total hops as the
wide3-3... 

The "wide1-1" would be picked up by fill in (home)
digi's, and sent on it's way hopefully hitting another
digi, etc etc...


Good luck...
73's
Eric
kc0ahk
home,-9car,-13suburban
and digi's coming soon!!!!!!


--- 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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