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<div>Hi Steven,</div>
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<div>Do you plan to chase the payload to the landing? Once your payload is off the ground, line-of-sight propagation will be excellent. We've used a VX-1R in the past with no trouble receiving data for 100 mi or more, as long as it was line of sight. This was with a whip antenna on the payload (minimal ground plane) and mag-mounts on the chase vehicle.</div>
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<div>Any I-gate that is line-of-sight will pick it up too.</div>
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<div>73 de Mark N9XTN</div>
<div><a href="http://www.nstar.org/">www.nstar.org</a></div>
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote"><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 05:54:37 -0800 (PST)<br>From: Steven Brower <<a href="mailto:stevenbrower@verizon.net">stevenbrower@verizon.net</a>><br>
Subject: [aprssig] temporary APRS setup<br>To: <a href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:358234.7562.qm@web84305.mail.re1.yahoo.com">358234.7562.qm@web84305.mail.re1.yahoo.com</a>><br>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii<br><br>Thanks, Mark<br>That's true about the power on that thing- I put it in my freezer for an hour and the power did go down a bit but less than a volt. I will have to retest with all the new electronics I've subsequently come up with for the payload. It's so tiny though. I guess an Alinco is the more typical choice, even though its heavier. I found a digipeater 100 miles away from my launch site and I am thinking that's too far to depend on for the returning payload. Do you have suggestions about a temporary digi/igate to supplement that distant station? How much coverage would one need at a minimum? Again, this is out in Montana, north of Livingston.<br>
Steven Brower<br>KC2SQU<br><br></blockquote></div>