<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>FWIW, I used my quadcopter today at the Atlanta Hamfest to win second place in the antenna launching competition. It was designed for guys with air cannons and slingshots with fishing reels attached to demonstrate their accuracy in getting a fishing line through a 2 foot Y at 30 feet above the ground. I just tied the fishing line to the quad and flew it right up and over the Y. I would have won first, but my knot slipped and the line dropped before I got it over the Y.</div><div>I'm not sure I'd want 144Mhz at 1watt coming off the quad. I've got 5.8Ghz NTSC video, 915MHz telemetry, and 2.4GHz control up/telemetry down right now. Another transmitter would probably make me violate some FCC rule. Besides, I'm getting 10Hz GPS updates on the telemetry link at 57kbps, which is several orders of magnitude better than 1 update every 30 seconds with APRS.</div><div><br></div><div>John Gorkos</div><div>AB0OO</div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Andrew Rich <<a href="mailto:vk4tec@tech-software.net">vk4tec@tech-software.net</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span> TAPR APRS Mailing List <<a href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Friday, May 31, 2013 10:51 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> 'TAPR APRS Mailing List' <<a href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> [aprssig] APRS : Quad Copter VHF APRS 145.175 MHz 1 watt<br></div><div><br></div><div><meta content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"><meta name="GENERATOR" content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.23487"><style></style><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><br></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">Just flew APRS on my quad copter </font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">VHF APRS 145.175 MHz </font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">1 Watt </font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="http://www.tech-software.net/aprs_quad.jpg">http://www.tech-software.net/aprs_quad.jpg</a></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">- Andrew VK4TEC - </font></div></div></div>
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