On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Jim Tolbert wrote: > I just received an e-mail from a supplier about the Garmin Rino. Has > anyone else heard this info... any confirmation?
Haven't heard. > What is the status of the new generation of trackers ( Tracker2, I > think?). As I understand, the innovation is that they are digipeaters > as well. Correct? The T2-135 which fits inside the Alinco DR-135T mobile radio is evidently able to be purchased from Scott's website. The Tracker2 in a steel case: He has a few hand-assembled units which are mostly spoken for, and should have more available soon. Both of these can function as WIDEn-N digipeaters, and pre-emptive digipeaters, as well as trackers and KISS TNC's. There's also the Byonics TinyTrak4 which is still in development. I think Byon just said his goal for production was 5 or 6 weeks out? I don't know what the current feature set is for these, but it'll improve over time and is user-flashable. So is the Tracker2. > For SAR GPS tracking, on each field searcher, we would still need a > radio, a tracker, and a mapping GPS. Is that correct? Or can a GPS > receiver like the Deluo be used in place of the "mapping GPS"? You could certainly use a Deluo or nearly any other GPS that put out NMEA serial data. What you can't use is a GPS with a USB port, if that's the only type of port they have. > Is there any company that anyone knows of that is working on a unit with > the radio/gps/tracker that will work on the APRS network -- aka, a Rino > for Ham? Scott was working on a radio/TNC combo. Not sure how far along that project is. There's also the 8W amp to go with the integrated radio transmitter/TNC that Byonics is selling, but that unit has no receiver. -- Curt, WE7U: <www.eskimo.com/~archer/> XASTIR: <www.xastir.org> "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir