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 Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 3:28 am Post subject: online airplane tracker |
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No, not the one that shows IFR flight progress; this is what you can do with a tiny Ressee-Cup sized GPS, a tracker interface, and a VHF ham radio walkie talkie (and a license for same, naturally):
http://aprs.he.fi/?call=n4dln&mt=m&z=9&timerange=43200
The map shows a flight I took Weds morning and a hike I took the same afternoon, and erroneously connects them together into one flight path. It will only be displayable for 24 hours after the trip, but there are other sites with less detailed maps that will recall my same journey up to 30 days later. Click on individual data points to see course, speed and altitude telemetry data. Not sure why a few of the flight waypoints show unrealistically slow speeds, but the cheapie 58 dollar GPS might be fooled by s-turns as it calculates speed. The waypoints logged from my Peaks of Otter hike are consistent with walking and driving speeds. Note that on the ground in mountainous terrain, my beacon was only detected 4 or 5 times in 3 hours, but in the air, nearly every ping (approx 90 second spacing) got picked up by the digipeater network and relayed to the internet. This occurs in real time, so flight tracking by family and friends is very feasible. I wanted to have this on our Yellowstone trip, but was delayed by shortages on the supplier's end.
Cool, huh? Check it out before about 1030 AM today or the waypoints will begin disappearing into the 24 hour time limit and you'll be left saying Huh? I don't see anything...
-Stormy
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| Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 4:33 am Post subject: online airplane tracker |
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Stormy, that is really neat but don't mention it to Carmen. She already keeps tabs on me, I just don't want it to be too easy. Regards, John.
"Bill Boyd" <sportav8r(at)gmail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | No, not the one that shows IFR flight progress; this is what you can do with
a tiny Ressee-Cup sized GPS, a tracker interface, and a VHF ham radio walkie
talkie (and a license for same, naturally):
http://aprs.he.fi/?call=n4dln&mt=m&z=9&timerange=43200
The map shows a flight I took Weds morning and a hike I took the same
afternoon, and erroneously connects them together into one flight path. It
will only be displayable for 24 hours after the trip, but there are other
sites with less detailed maps that will recall my same journey up to 30 days
later. Click on individual data points to see course, speed and altitude
telemetry data. Not sure why a few of the flight waypoints show
unrealistically slow speeds, but the cheapie 58 dollar GPS might be fooled
by s-turns as it calculates speed. The waypoints logged from my Peaks of
Otter hike are consistent with walking and driving speeds. Note that on the
ground in mountainous terrain, my beacon was only detected 4 or 5 times in 3
hours, but in the air, nearly every ping (approx 90 second spacing) got
picked up by the digipeater network and relayed to the internet. This
occurs in real time, so flight tracking by family and friends is very
feasible. I wanted to have this on our Yellowstone trip, but was delayed by
shortages on the supplier's end.
Cool, huh? Check it out before about 1030 AM today or the waypoints will
begin disappearing into the 24 hour time limit and you'll be left saying
Huh? I don't see anything...
-Stormy
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John Clark
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| Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 5:07 am Post subject: online airplane tracker |
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Stormy, sent this to our guys in the lab. They found this!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,251122,00.html
A chip implant?
JohnCClarkVA wrote:
| Quote: | Stormy, that is really neat but don't mention it to Carmen. She already keeps tabs on me, I just don't want it to be too easy. Regards, John.
"Bill Boyd" <sportav8r(at)gmail.com> wrote:
>No, not the one that shows IFR flight progress; this is what you can do with
>a tiny Ressee-Cup sized GPS, a tracker interface, and a VHF ham radio walkie
>talkie (and a license for same, naturally):
>
>http://aprs.he.fi/?call=n4dln&mt=m&z=9&timerange=43200
>
>The map shows a flight I took Weds morning and a hike I took the same
>afternoon, and erroneously connects them together into one flight path. It
>will only be displayable for 24 hours after the trip, but there are other
>sites with less detailed maps that will recall my same journey up to 30 days
>later. Click on individual data points to see course, speed and altitude
>telemetry data. Not sure why a few of the flight waypoints show
>unrealistically slow speeds, but the cheapie 58 dollar GPS might be fooled
>by s-turns as it calculates speed. The waypoints logged from my Peaks of
>Otter hike are consistent with walking and driving speeds. Note that on the
>ground in mountainous terrain, my beacon was only detected 4 or 5 times in 3
>hours, but in the air, nearly every ping (approx 90 second spacing) got
>picked up by the digipeater network and relayed to the internet. This
>occurs in real time, so flight tracking by family and friends is very
>feasible. I wanted to have this on our Yellowstone trip, but was delayed by
>shortages on the supplier's end.
>
>Cool, huh? Check it out before about 1030 AM today or the waypoints will
>begin disappearing into the 24 hour time limit and you'll be left saying
>Huh? I don't see anything...
>
>-Stormy
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| Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:16 am Post subject: online airplane tracker |
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I was going to say, she probably has you "tagged" already.
-Bill
On 7/5/07, JohnCClarkVA(at)cs.com (JohnCClarkVA(at)cs.com) <JohnCClarkVA(at)cs.com (JohnCClarkVA(at)cs.com)> wrote:[quote]--> RVSouthEast-List message posted by: JohnCClarkVA(at)cs.com (JohnCClarkVA(at)cs.com)
Stormy, sent this to our guys in the lab. They found this!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,251122,00.html
A chip implant?
JohnCClarkVA wrote:
[quote]Stormy, that is really neat but don't mention it to Carmen. She already keeps tabs on me, I just don't want it to be too easy. Regards, John.
"Bill Boyd" <sportav8r(at)gmail.com (sportav8r(at)gmail.com)> wrote:
>No, not the one that shows IFR flight progress; this is what you can do with
>a tiny Ressee-Cup sized GPS, a tracker interface, and a VHF ham radio walkie
>talkie (and a license for same, naturally):
>
>http://aprs.he.fi/?call=n4dln&mt=m&z=9&timerange=43200
>
>The map shows a flight I took Weds morning and a hike I took the same
>afternoon, and erroneously connects them together into one flight path. It
>will only be displayable for 24 hours after the trip, but there are other
>sites with less detailed maps that will recall my same journey up to 30 days
>later. Click on individual data points to see course, speed and altitude
>telemetry data. Not sure why a few of the flight waypoints show
>unrealistically slow speeds, but the cheapie 58 dollar GPS might be fooled
>by s-turns as it calculates speed. The waypoints logged from my Peaks of
>Otter hike are consistent with walking and driving speeds. Note that on the
>ground in mountainous terrain, my beacon was only detected 4 or 5 times in 3
>hours, but in the air, nearly every ping (approx 90 second spacing) got
>picked up by the digipeater network and relayed to the internet. This
>occurs in real time, so flight tracking by family and friends is very
>feasible. I wanted to have this on our Yellowstone trip, but was delayed by
>shortages on the supplier's end.
>
>Cool, huh? Check it out before about 1030 AM today or the waypoints will
>begin disappearing into the 24 hour time limit and you'll be left saying
>Huh? I don't see anything...
> [quote][b]
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