[HSIS] Cheap APRS Tracker Solutions

[Matt]

wb8elk at aol.com wrote:
> Ethan and Matt...please forward to the rest of your Maker 256 team:
>  
> My multi-mode tracker circuit that I've designed will shortly include
> APRS on it...I flew it on the fourth balloon....map attached of that
> flight path from the data we received from my tracker throughout the
> flight (the one that shows the parachute icon).....we can use that for
> your flights in the Summer.
>  
> I'm also going to test fly a very cheap Zigbee 900 MHz module next
> Sunday......approx $40 for the transmitter.
>  
> What cell phone tracking website did you use for last Saturday's
> flight?....and did you get any photos on the camera?
We had a tracking site setup here: https://the.narro.ws/mologogo There
might not actually be any data on it due to the 24 rollover period I
programmed in. Honestly, we didn't get much. We had date, lat, lon, alt,
speed, battery level, and the closest tower lat, lon. We got two points
in the parking lot around 9:43 and none since.

Sadly, we didn't get any pictures with the camera after packing. It got
switched off or disabled some how while we were wrapping it up.

Thanks so much for letting us hitchhike. We're interested in your
multi-mode tracker circuit. Maybe we can help speed up it's development
and fly one of them with our payload soon.

One of our team members has played with the Zigbees but I don't know to
what extent. I like that with APRS, there's already nodes tracking to
websites like findu.com.

I've written up a short post for our website. You can read it here:
http://256.makerslocal.org/2010/04/15/hacker-spaces-in-space-first-flight/

#matt

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