The October 2010 Special Interest Group (SIG) night looked at the new Opentracker units that were ordered as the APRS Bulk Purchase. Over $1000 of hardware was delivered to the eager members (or mailed out) and we looked at the hardware build quality, components, SW and configuration options. The cables provided look to be excellent value and well made. The GPS units locked on quickly and held positions even when we tried to block the signal, so are very sensitive.
The next step will be to have another evening with UIView or similar running so we can view the data sent by the tracker as we try out all the options. We are very keen to see how the mode switching, low voltage tx suppression and telemetry functions work.
A fun evening and a good start to the APRS project.