I've been playing with APRS tracking a little bit, and will have a unit on my pickup, and a small unit on the bike during the rally.
What this is, is...an amateur radio inteface for a GPS unit, that will transmit your location to another station, which uploads it to the internet.
I haven't had a lot of luck getting it configured properly, and it's only working 30% of the time.
Ideally, and in certain areas, you can essentially track a vehicle on the internet.
Anyway, it should work most of the way up to Willville, may work while riding in the area, may not.
Here's a general search query page that will pop up which, if any, of my units is being 'heard', and the last postion transmitted.
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=kd4ede*
This will display all or any units being heard under my callsign.
If you click on a listing, it will show you the last postion of that unit.
Watch for the most recent position listing.
Last position is displayed as Days/hours/minutes/seconds AGO.
Right now, it's showing week old locations. Once I get moving toward Willville, one should change.
The following page currently shows the location of my pickup, the last time it got into the system, as I returned from VA last week.
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=KD4EDE-14 This -14 suffix is the one that's most likely to start working today.
If Kd4ede-5, or -6 shows up, that's the miniature tracker, built in an altoids tin. It puts out less than half a watt......
http://www.splashblog.com/pcedel/preview/27160.jpg The -14 and -2 are 2-3 watts.
-2 is my home.
By the next rally, I'll have the bugs worked out, and you should be able to follow whichever group I'm riding with during the rally, at home, on the internet.
Heck. I may not know where I am, but somebody will........
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