[Xastir] rocket tracker O/T sorry

[Kurt]

Oh,
  Another thing is John Beans is working on a generic GPS mesh network tracking device.  Actually sounds like a transceiver.  Your rocket lands out of range and I launch one of mine up and it "hears" your final position of your downed rocket and sends the positionback to the ground station.
Again all the devices are supposed to be the same and can communicate with one another. Alternatively, can put one of the devices on a quad copter to run a search pattern or have it up high tethered on a gas balloon to "listen"from a height advantage.
Sounds interesting to me but might be overkill as standard GPS tracking is pretty darned good for sport fliers to start with.   Might be helpful for those who go "stupid high" and "stupid fast" and are recovering a long waysaway from the starting point.
Kurt KC9LDH 

      From: Jason KG4WSV <kg4wsv at gmail.com>
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> On Mar 12, 2016, at 6:36 PM, Kurt <ksaves2 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> Why do the hardware exercise since the EggFinder receiver bonds to any laptopand your script does the chores nicely?

Because  I would like to have multiple trackers online/in the air simultaneously, and I would like to do it without needing a ground station receiver for every operating tracker (about $60 for one xbee ground station, plus all the complexity) and the extra configuration complexity of using multiple xbee pairs simultaneously. It's also easier to get APRS back onto the air for consumption on a D72, D700, etc. 

It's also a little bit of an experiment in creating an APRS RF network on a layer 2 protocol other than AX.25. 

-j

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