Oh,
Another thing is John Beans is working on a generic GPS mesh network tracking
device. Actually sounds like a transceiver. Your rocket lands out of range
and I launch one of mine up and it "hears" your final position of your downed
rocket and sends the positionback to the ground station.
Again all the devices are supposed to be the same and can communicate with one
another. Alternatively, can put one of the devices on a quad copter to run a
search pattern or have it up high tethered on a gas balloon to "listen"from a
height advantage.
Sounds interesting to me but might be overkill as standard GPS tracking is
pretty darned good for sport fliers to start with. Might be helpful for those
who go "stupid high" and "stupid fast" and are recovering a long waysaway from
the starting point.
Kurt KC9LDH
From: Jason KG4WSV <[email protected]>
To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2016 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Xastir] rocket tracker
> On Mar 12, 2016, at 6:36 PM, Kurt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Why do the hardware exercise since the EggFinder receiver bonds to any
> laptopand your script does the chores nicely?
Because I would like to have multiple trackers online/in the air
simultaneously, and I would like to do it without needing a ground station
receiver for every operating tracker (about $60 for one xbee ground station,
plus all the complexity) and the extra configuration complexity of using
multiple xbee pairs simultaneously. It's also easier to get APRS back onto the
air for consumption on a D72, D700, etc.
It's also a little bit of an experiment in creating an APRS RF network on a
layer 2 protocol other than AX.25.
-j
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