I will be departing from central Michigan to the New Orleans area on 5 Feb
2019.?? Once again, I will be experimenting with 60-meters APRS enroute.
The outbound trip will be Feb 5th through the 7th.? The return trip will be Feb
10th through the 12th.? The 8fh and 9th will be in Versailles, Louisiana (far
northeastern corner of New Orleans) attempting to photograph the annual Tet
Festival with my new Autel EVO camera drone.? (Tet is the Vietnamese version of
the Chinese New Years - there is a sizable Vietnamese community in New Orleans.)
The return trip will take a different itinerary. I intend to stop at MFJ in
Starkville, MS, on the way to metro Chicago. I will? pick up my sister at
O'Hare, who will be returning from 6 weeks in Argentina the same day. Then we
will drive back to central Michigan.
-?? At home, I have TWO Yaesu FT-891 transceivers connected to two copies of
UIview monitoring, mapping, and igating 60 meters and 30 meters simultaneously.
[As I have mentioned previously, these inexpensive HF rigs are ideally suited
for HF APRS operation.? The FT-891's continuously-variable DSP IF system can be
screwed down to the ideal bandwidth for both APRS modes simultaneously - about
800 Hz.]
On the outbound trip, I will beacon on 60 meters until Internet mapping shows I
am no longer being heard on 60 meters, and will then switch to the usual 30
meters APRS channel while in New Orleans.?? On the return trip, I will start
beaconing on 60 M again, as soon as I depart the New Orleans area, so there may
be nothing heard for the first day of the return trip.
Last summer's test from Michigan to Colorado along I-80 showed very consistent
results out to about 500 miles/800 km (Des Moines, Iowa area) going west.?? I
have no sense how the north-south 60M propagation to "NoLA" (the locals'
abbreviation for New Orleans, Louisiana)? will compare with the east-west path
last year.
A dedicated 60 Meter APRS UI-webserver/igate is now operating at
<> .
The details are the same as last year:
-? US 60-meters "Chanel 5"?? 5.403.5 MHz USB
-? Standard tones of 1600/1800 Hz for AX.25 and 2100 for MFSK16
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Stephen H. Smith??? wa8lmf (at) aol.com
Skype:??????? WA8LMF
EchoLink:? Node #? 14400? [Think bottom of the 2-meter band]
Home Page:?????????
Live Off-The-Air APRS Activity Maps
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Long-Range APRS on 30 Meters HF
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