Hilltopping has been discussed a lot on the HamHUD group and others as well.
If you can figure out how to deduce the crest of a hill buried in the vertical variablility noise, have at it. Your idea has merit, there's just no solution yet. Write the script and get it working well, and others will look at it. If it works good, it might get added to the SmartBeacon routine. James VE6SRV On 6/14/10, Pete Lilja <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
