[CRAPRS] My next APRS mission.

[Jerry Pasker]

It's too cold to fly the balloon. Or climb towers.  So I've been 
working on increasing my level of APRS kung-fu.

The KB0QCL-10 test N-n digi is going to to be mobile. And be a N-n 
digi.  Why?  Because it'll be receiving APRS packets and plotting 
them as way points to my old Garmin GPS III+ because I realized that 
I could have a mobile APRS station that could map APRS objects, 
entirely with equipment I already had.  It'll be doing this while 
it's sending position packets (smart beaconing) and while it's being 
an N-n digi, and hopefully repeating packets from 144.990 to 144.390. 
The entire setup: GPS, TNC, harnesses, cables, batteries, Kenwood HT, 
etc. is smaller than half a loaf of bread.

So if you see a lot of weird ARPS stuff around Monticello, this 
weekend, including a green star N-n digi out for a a drive, and you 
click on it in aprs.fi and see that it's actually hearing stations 
and relaying packets, that's just me, being an ARPS geek.

The point of this otherwise highly pointless exercise is to become 
comfortable deploying a very low power tracker, and actually being 
able to track it from a vehicle, without needing a full fledged PC 
running in a vehicle. And digi data from the low power frequency to 
144.390 at the same time for archival on the internet.

APRS is cool for putting dots on maps on the internet.  But I think 
APRS is more cool if you can track those dots from a vehicle.

-Jerry