Digital Sky-Writing
Digital Sky-Writing
- A few weeks ago I heard about a pilot who had done some funky navigation, which showed up as a drawing of an aircraft when looking at his flight track from historical radar data. This looked like a fun project to put together locally in Texas.
- Our plan had us departing San Marcos Municipal Airport, westbound towards Fredrickberg, where we planned to have lunch.
- APRS is basically digital data being transmitted through radio waves, received by one or more ground stations, all operated by amateur volunteers and repeated (digipeated) to another ground station (if needed) connected to the internet if needed. Some of the best APRS tracks I have ever seen!
- Thanks again to Charlie and all the No Agenda Producers who helped monitor and propagate our formula.
- We also plotted the GPS data recorded on board with a Garmin to Google Earth