Re: APRS trackers IDs for all balloons.
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AE5IB (Kip)
Same here. We will have mobile i-gate capability for 144.39 and maybe 144.34 (we have two setups but our balloons are on 144.39) And we are connecting to the internet with ATT and Sprint. My experience in the less populated areas near Glen Rose when we were chasing balloons east of there, that cell coverage is spotty especially if there are hills. And none of the hills are very big, but enough to block cell coverage if you get behind one. And from aprs.fi, it appears that there are almost no digipeaters or i-gates in the areas where the balloons are predicted to land. So mobile i-gates are the way to go if you can get coverage. I used my cell phone as a mobile i-gate for 2 days during the MS150 bike ralley (about 12 hours the first day and 10 hours the second day), and used about 220 Mbytes total of my data plan, so it is not a data expensive operation. Kip On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Mark Conner mconner1@... [GPSL] <GPSL-noreply@...> wrote:
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