Sam Buchanan
been here awhile
The more APRS trackers are installed in RV's, the more it seems the system is viable for long cross country flights. I was poking around aprs.fi in the North Alabama area this afternoon and saw a red trail plotted at ~9.5K msl. Got to following it and it seems N7VD, an RV-7A, made a trip today from Double Eagle in Albuquerque to somewhere in the mountains of North Carolina (Boone?) with a lunch stop in Texarkana.
The track was really solid all the way from NM to NC:
http://aprs.fi/?call=KE5TZM-7&mt=m&z=10&timerange=3600
Impressive not only for the APRS performance but for how the little home-made plane got John safely across a big chunk of the USA today in nine hours.![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
The track was really solid all the way from NM to NC:
http://aprs.fi/?call=KE5TZM-7&mt=m&z=10&timerange=3600
Impressive not only for the APRS performance but for how the little home-made plane got John safely across a big chunk of the USA today in nine hours.
![N7VD.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fhome.hiwaay.net%2F%7Esbuc%2FN7VD.jpg&hash=a43cadbf93bcaa84ca0063ef4e5ee1ef)
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