[Noisebridge-discuss] Spacebridge launch planning meeting, Sunday 1/10, 5pm

[Michael Wright]

I think there's actually a droid app that will do just that via bluetooth serial.  I think it was "blue nmea".  


For the long range data-link, would it be possible to make a directional antenna a GMRS (12 mile, mostly unlicensed) radio?

mike

On Jan 7, 2010, at 12:21 PM, Jonathan Lassoff wrote:

> Excerpts from Joel Jaeggli's message of Wed Jan 06 22:41:21 -0800 2010:
>> aprs is typically done in 2 meter e.g. 144mhz, smallest handheld I've
>> seen is an alinco DJ-C7T/E (don't have one myself) which is about 100
>> grams with battery, less if you swap the rubber ducky for a wire whip
>> and power all the parts off the same battery.
> 
> I figure, it doesn't have to be a 2m radio if we can find a pair of
> smaller/lower power radios in other bands.
> 
> Would be cool if we could somehow get a NMEA GPS stream out of the GPS
> receiver in whatever *droid phone is in use, and just feed this.
> 
> As far as batteries go, if we're ambitious, it would help the efficiency
> of things to have a single DC bus, rather than multiple packs of battery
> cells.
> 
> --j
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