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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">The Solar Impulse is aloft, starting its multi-leg flight from San Francisco to Washington DC.</p><p class="MsoNormal">
<a href="http://www.solarimpulse.com/en/across-america/">http://www.solarimpulse.com/en/across-america/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">There is no APRS tracker on board, but there is no reason why APRS cannot track here as an object so that all radio Amateurs can see it if they are out side and driving around.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Use the object name “SOLAR1”.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Remember anyone with info on its live position can enter it as an object so everyone else on APRS can see it.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Im not talking about an APRS-IS object which can only be seen on line. This is not needed since anyone who is online can go to the SolarImpulse page and see that.</p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal">Im talking about a live on-air object so ham radio ops, not aware of it will be able to see it on their mobile and look up and see it live.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">This means an APRS operator every hundred miles or so getting the data and creating the on-air object.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Remember, you can uplink an object from any APRS radio by momentatily entering the manual position of the aircraft and then changing your callsign to SOLAR1, sending a few packets and then switching your callsign back.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Its only fliying at 60 MPH or so?, so you can also get under it and generate a live object that way!</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Just an idea.</p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal">We wont see it in Washington DC for sometime yet.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Today it is SF to Phoenix.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Bob, WB4APR</p><p class="MsoNormal">
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