[aprssig] Airborne Digis

[Tom Hayward]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Gregory A. Carter <gcarter at openaprs.net> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> For search and rescue use I'm trying to setup and implement an Airborne
> capable digi that will not cause interference but will respond to our
> trackers out in the field in remote uncovered (by digis) areas and get them
> into the APRS and APRS-IS network along with our local monitoring machines.
> As a result I'd love to hear input from anyone here who has experience in
> this situation.

I would configure the airborne digi as a standard fill-in digipeater,
responding to WIDE1-1. I don't think this would cause interference.
Worst case scenario, you digipeat some non-SAR mobiles across a good
sized area. This doesn't seem worse than installing a mountain-top W2
digipeater at 4000'+ HAAT. It's at least worth testing.

Tom KD7LXL