Monthly Archives: March 2012

Track our hike in Capitol Reef National Park

March 8, 2012 by Bryan Bibeau | 0 Comments

Testing out my new TH-D72A in APRS mode. It looks like there should be a repeater on Mt. Ellen that will pick us up. This should start showing data points on Friday, March 9th.


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UV3D APRS working!

March 1, 2012 by Bryan Bibeau | 3 Comments

My problem turned out to be power related. Whenever the TT3 would transmit, the voltage would drop to around 4.7v and it would reset. I added a LM7805 with 4 AA batteries, and it is working reliably now. I also moved it from the breadboard to a circuit board so I can test it on the highway.
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Wouxun UV3D APRS

March 1, 2012 by Bryan Bibeau | 0 Comments

Finally was able to get my homemade APRS transmitter working tonight! I’m using a Byonics TinyTrak 3 SMT TNC with a Parallax GPS, hooked to my Wouxun HT. There seems to be something weird going on with the PTT circuit that I haven’t quite figured out yet. The TT3 doesn’t always seem able to pull down the 5V PTT singnal on the handheld. I’m thinking about adding an external transistor if I can’t get it to work reliably.

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