| APRS in the Central West |
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| Written by VK2MRP | |
| Thursday, 31 January 2008 | |
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APRS has recently come alive in Central Western NSW. Kim VK2ASY has been a big factor with this activity in APRS and I would like to extend a word of thanks to Kim for his work in this area.
We now have digipeaters and igates setup in the local area with more planned to be operational in the very near future. Kim operates a digi/igate from his home QTH, Lindsay VK2ALO is operating a digi from VK2RLH and I am running an igate from my QTH (hopefully soon will be a fill-in digi). Additionally there are some weather stations operating in the local area as well. I have been playing a bit with APRS - mainly when I am out and about in the work car. My typical setup is my trusty Kenwood TH-D7AG with magmount external antenna and a Garmin GPS. This gets me up and active on APRS. From my driving around I can tell you that there are some blackspot coverage areas, but so far things have been pretty good. Coverage did take a bit of a fall when the digi at VK2RLH was off air due to failed finals in the transmitter, but now it is operational again things are back to being pretty good. Coverage should be excellent once ODARC (Orange and District Radio Club) get their digi on Mt Canobolas operational. I am very much looking forward to that. You can usually find Kim, Peter VK2BLO and myself all mobile on APRS, along with a few others that pop up from time to time. Below is a screenshot from http://aprs.fi/ of the last 24 hours of activity in this area. As you can see we have been mobile :)  APRS |
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