<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Yep, we will track and follow the flight. What you describe is pretty much my setup at the moment. What kind of altitude and packet sucsess did you get? I would find it very helpful to have something like my hardware to make comparisons, data-wise. Thanks</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Steven</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color:
rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">KC2SQU<br><span>Hi Steven,</span><br><span></span><br><span>Do you plan to chase the payload to the landing? Once your payload is off</span><br><span>the ground, line-of-sight propagation will be excellent. We've used a VX-1R</span><br><span>in the past with no trouble receiving data for 100 mi or more, as long as it</span><br><span>was line of sight. This was with a whip antenna on the payload (minimal</span><br><span>ground plane) and mag-mounts on the chase vehicle.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Any I-gate that is line-of-sight will pick it up too.</span><br><span></span><br><span>73 de Mark N9XTN</span><br><span><a href="http://www.nstar.org/" x-apple-data-detectors="true"><a href="http://www.nstar.org">www.nstar.org</a></a></span><br><span></span><br></span>Steven Brower<div>BPL</div></div><div><br>On Nov 3, 2009, at 7:00 AM, <a
href="mailto:aprssig-request@tapr.org">aprssig-request@tapr.org</a> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><br><span> Hi Steven,</span><br><span></span><br><span>Do you plan to chase the payload to the landing? Once your payload is off</span><br><span>the ground, line-of-sight propagation will be excellent. We've used a VX-1R</span><br><span>in the past with no trouble receiving data for 100 mi or more, as long as it</span><br><span>was line of sight. This was with a whip antenna on the payload (minimal</span><br><span>ground plane) and mag-mounts on the chase vehicle.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Any I-gate that is line-of-sight will pick it up too.</span><br><span></span><br><span>73 de Mark N9XTN</span><br><span><a href="http://www.nstar.org" x-apple-data-detectors="true"><a href="http://www.nstar.org">www.nstar.org</a></a></span><br><span></span><br></blockquote><div></div></body></html>