Showing posts with label APRS NET51TNC Tracker GPS Skylab SKM53 SmartBeacon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label APRS NET51TNC Tracker GPS Skylab SKM53 SmartBeacon. Show all posts

Sunday, June 29, 2014

Testing the NET51TNC as an APRS Tracker

On the GPS tab, I turn on Smart Beacon and took it for a ride.. The Smart Beacon is the 3rd options from the left .. I've setup my tracker as 9W2SVT-9 with a red car icon ...

GPS tab
Here are my setup on 2 cigarette power supply powering the NET51TNC and my Wouxun UVD1P radio.. I have also setup the GPS (9600 baud) and connected a Skylab SKM53 GPS module on TTL to the I/O pins.

Power Supply, GPS I/O

From the picture below, I have mounted the small GPS module from Skylab SKM53 inside the car. This GPS module is really sensitive and can received GPS signal from insde the car.
GPS mounted inside the car

This APRS packet was bounced off a digipeater really far away ....
aprs.fi

The below image shows a WIDE2 scenario where the APRS packets was repeated twice before reaching an iGate.

Wide2