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!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/20/06,
<b class="gmail_sendername">bob evinger</b> <<a href="mailto:wd9eka@evinger.com">wd9eka@evinger.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I completed a 3,860 mile ride about a week ago. Had a pockettracker in the<br>trunk of my goldwing feeding a 5/8 antenna. I am seriously thinking I need<br>to upgrade to something with more oomph.<br><br>I was on the road 8 days, was able to check my findu status with my cell
<br>phone and with the power out of the pocket tracker it just didnt get it.<br>I have an igate at home so I had some reports within my first 10-20 miles.<br>I went south from Marshall, IL using state highways to Cairo. Interstate
<br>south to memphis down to just north of New Orleans then west on I-10 to El<br>Paso. up through the Gila national forest, by the VLA near magdalena, NM.<br>Into Socorro to Chama across some 10K foot passes into colorado and then
<br>picked up I-70 east and home.<br><br>ON that trip the only obvious places I seem to report were. while at home,<br>next one I can verify was Baton Rouge, then I think I showed up in El<br>Paso, TX, then Socorro, nm next one I had anybody spot me at was Hays, KS,
<br>then I think ST. Louis area and when I got back home.<br><br>Are the digis that sparse along my route or do I just need a few more<br>watts? If power is an issue, anybody else running m/c mobile with aprs, or<br>anyone with opinions on what the ideal output power would be. I had run a
<br>tiny tracker with external radio in my car at one point and always had<br>good luck with that until I had equipment failure.<br><br>I ride the m/c a lot and if I am going to bother to haul a GPS and aprs<br>gear on it, I want to at least get a little bit better chance at being
<br>heard.<br><br>Not planning any more big rides for this year but even my sometimes 200<br>mile round trips from marshall to indianapolis leaves lots of big holes(<br>as in received through my igate, then kb9qjm-10 at cloverdale indiana and
<br>once in a great while I get relayed to the outside world on the east side<br>of Indy.<br><br>Woa, this got longer than I had intended. I just need to do something to<br>improve the signal but not take up a lot of space, or just pull the aprs
<br>gear out altogether.<br><br>Suggestions???<br>bob m/c aprs wd9eka-9<br><br><br>Bob Evinger EMT-I WD9EKA/AAR5MG(Army MARS operator)<br>The public highway system is not Daytona, and you are not Jeff Gordon.<br><br><br>
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</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>John Habbinga, KC5ZRQ<br>Lubbock, Texas<br><a href="http://find-you.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=KC5ZRQ*">http://find-you.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=KC5ZRQ*</a>