[aprssig] Temporary APRS setup

[Steven Brower]

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
Steven
KC2SQU
Hi Steven,

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.

Any I-gate that is line-of-sight will pick it up too.

73 de Mark N9XTN
www.nstar.org

Steven Brower
BPL

On Nov 3, 2009, at 7:00 AM, aprssig-request at tapr.org wrote:


Hi Steven,

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.

Any I-gate that is line-of-sight will pick it up too.

73 de Mark N9XTN
www.nstar.org

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