I was driving in Southern Iowa and Northern Missouri over the weekend with my T2-135 connected to a Nuvi 350. I got quite good coverage throughout the weekend. I have Smart Beaconing set and active as I travel yet it occurred to me during the trip that it is only triggered by time or a turn and that often doesn't happen while on top of a hill when the added elevation would give better / more distant APRS coverage.
That leads me to wonder if, first, it is possible to wrtie a script for the T2 to detect when the mobile has made an elevation increase to truigger a position beacon sent. My thinking is that the script would monitor elevation changes and when the unit began to descend a packet would be sent. This would, of course, miss the peak altitude but may still send a beacon when you're close to being at the top of a hill. I don't remember seeing this in the Smart Beaconing set-up but maybe there is a way to do it there? Thanks, Pete KC0GPB
