[aprssig] RE: APRS 6m Meteor Scatter

[Robert Bruninga]

Phillip,

Apparently the guy that is doing all the conversions thinks he
will be charging on the order of $120 each .  This is higher
than I thought for surplus radios, but then he had to buy 120 of
them to get 30 working...  I cannot imagine that shipping them
to NZ would be cost effective... Nor worth the hassle.

To build up a Meteor Scater network in NZ/AUS, I would think you
are going to need a lot of players and so you will need to
develop a local source down there...

Is that what you have in mind?
Thanks
Bob, WB4APR
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phillip [mailto:zl2tze at yahoo.com.au] 
> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 2:02 PM
> To: aprssig at lists.tapr.org; bruninga at usna.edu
> Subject: APRS 6m Meteor Scatter
> 
> Hi, Bob
>          I have replied 4 times to this message but they 
> appear to have not
> reached you.
> 
> I am interested in obtaining 1 or 2 of these radios 
> 
> Sending them to NZ is no problem
> 
> 73 
> 
> Phillip ZL2TZE
> 
> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:36:00 -0500
> From: "Robert Bruninga" <bruninga at usna.edu>
> Subject: [aprssig] APRS 6m MeteorScatter net
> To: "'TAPR APRS Mailing List'" <aprssig at lists.tapr.org>
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>  
> APRS 6m Meteor Scatter:
>  
> It looks like we have located maybe 50 of these 6m radios.
>  
> These are 100 watt mobiles.  Two kinds:
> *  70-0375C's  (smaller)
> *  0520CWB's?  (bigger but with VHF cross link built in)
>  
> Again, my thinking is the worlds largest diversity receiver
for
> APRS meteor scatter emergency messaging.  Would be an order of
> Magnitude better performance than any one station can achieve.
>  
> http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/meteors.HTML
>  
> Althought they need 22 amps for transmit, they only draw 0.5
> Amps on receive which is all we need most of the time at the
> Igates.
>  
> Only problem is they are in Florida, and the cost of shipping
is
> More than the radios.  As we try to figure out what to do
about
> All this, it would be nice to know some things:
>  
> 1) who else would be interested in one of these?
> 2) who else has old 6m gear they could XTAL to this freq?
> 3) who of these then normally runs an Igate?
> 4) Do prospectives have room for a 100' long wire antenna?
>  
> Cost per radio estimated to be under $100 working with control
> Heads and mic.
>  
> Private replies to wb4apr at amsat.org and I will summarize.
> Bob, WB4APR
>  
>