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| blog:2020-08-15:picoaprs [2020/08/15 07:46] – [PicoAPRS] va7fi | blog:2020-08-15:picoaprs [2020/08/15 07:47] (current) – [PicoAPRS] va7fi |
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| It outputs 1W and you'll need to buy a separate antenna. The PicoAPRS's antenna port is a female SMA port (so you'll need an antenna with a male SMA connector), so Baofeng antennas won't work. | It outputs 1W and you'll need to buy a separate antenna. The PicoAPRS's antenna port is a female SMA port (so you'll need an antenna with a male SMA connector), so Baofeng antennas won't work. |
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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 trackers for drones or even drone APRS digipeaters | [[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. |
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| 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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