APRS Location Reporting Transmitter Installation

For those of you who interested in broadcasting your current location, speed, heading, and altitude to HAM based ground receivers (and have that data displayed in real-time on the internet), check this out. To see where we are, or our last flight, go to aprs.velocityxl.com

There was a good article in Kitplanes on APRS that turned me on to this technology, and the author maintains a nice website about APRS in aircraft here. The nice thing about this technology is that it is affordable (my transmitter, antenna, and GPS was about $175) to install, and free to operate. You do need to get an Amateur radio Technician license, but that is relatively easy. I recommend hamtestonline.com.

APRS Installation - Antenna is protected by straw

APRS Unit installed, GPS antenna shelf

An Example track

The microtrack 300 from Byoincs

Example Google Earth Presentation. With google earth you can overlay weather, use a sectional as the map base, and other coolness

Example of data gathered by APRS igates