[aprssig] KC8UCH balloon over western PA right now, reaching NE Maryland by 10am
Bob Bruninga
bruninga at usna.edu
Sun Apr 1 11:27:31 EDT 2007
> I promise, SDG-2 will carry APRS equipment (I just need to
> find a very light tracker and a GPS that doesn't eat
> batteries)!
You might try what we plan on for our ocean buoys. That is, only power up the GPS once every now and then. Maybe for a balloon, once every 10 minutes for 2 minutes would assure you got a good fix. That would reduce the battery load by a factor of 5..
Bob, Wb4APR
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