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blog:2020-08-15:picoaprs [2020/08/15 07:47] – [PicoAPRS] va7fiblog:2020-08-15:picoaprs [2020/08/15 07:47] (current) – [PicoAPRS] va7fi
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 [[https://www.dxengineering.com/parts/wmo-picoaprs |DX Engineering]] sells it for $220 and the user comments there are pretty informative: it seems that unless you're in an area with lots of digipeaters, using this unit with a portable antenna and its meagre 1W won't work as a mobile APRS station.  However, people have used it as a tracker for drones or even as a drone APRS digipeater. [[https://www.dxengineering.com/parts/wmo-picoaprs |DX Engineering]] sells it for $220 and the user comments there are pretty informative: it seems that unless you're in an area with lots of digipeaters, using this unit with a portable antenna and its meagre 1W won't work as a mobile APRS station.  However, people have used it as a tracker for drones or even as a drone APRS digipeater.
  
-It's pretty cool, but I can think of a lot of other things I'd spend $220 before buying this (unless I had a drone I guess).+It's pretty cool, but I can think of a lot of other things I'd spend $220 on before buying this (unless I had a drone I guess).
  
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