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Its a nice little tnc with gps, bluetooth and a thermometer. I recently got my amateur radio certificate and was interested doing some aprs messaging so i purchased a sainsonic ap510. Jul 10, 2014 the ap510 aprs tracker has a built in sirf4 gps, bluetooth to interface with your smartphone and aprsdroid app, temperature sensor, microsdtransflash card slot for saving your waypoints to a card. It is important that 5 volts also passes through as this is used for charging. Using 20141215 i was getting signals out to about 8 miles from the typical white stick omnis like diamond x50, and up to 20 miles from near chagford on dartmoor when it was mounted in a. Then hanging on for a third time the sainsonic avrt7 does it all simply.
For my usage i was looking for a low cost, small and batterywise solution on my hiking trips. I got my ap510 aprs tracker a little more than a year ago. It comes with minimal documentation in 4 languages and no software to configure it. Amateur radio station k6jeb blog archive sainsonic ap510. Reporting system, sainsonic ap510 is to share aprs data integration. So, now there are a bunch of choices for the same module. Sainsonic ap510 aprs tracker, builtin gps module, stable. Picoaprs worlds smallest aprs transceiver by db1nto picoaprs v3 is here and is about 27% smaller than v2. The sainsonic ap510 aprs tracker can work well richard. When it power on it can be decoded to work with the standard orientation can be issued after verification of aprs data. All we did was check the high altitude box in the ap510 application and wrote it to the tracker.
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Here i made a completely new cable without any case. Buy sainsonic ap510 aprs bluetooth vhf 1w tf temperature aprsdroid. Tracksoar is one of the smallest, lightest, open source aprs trackers available. I didnt make or sell your avrt5 and its software, so complaints about it go to. If you have problems on connection via serial take a look at the video on. The sainsonic ap510 is an integrated singlechannel vhf radio and aprs tracker. Here we go again sainsonic ap610 aprs microphone with a twist. But after the tracker got a new firmware dated 3 nov 2015, it has become so much better.
I found that windows 8 and newer would not program mine and that not. The avrt5, also known as the ap510, is a mobileportable 2 meter aprs and. It contains a gps receiver, vhf 1 watt transmitter, battery, and vhf antenna. We have the most uptodate sainsonic handheld radio software and usb cables for sale.
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