While on GW/NW-051 and GW/NW-044 at the weekend I had my FT3D with me.
Some interesting APRS packets received
GM0HBK-10
277.2 - miles away
929mph ?
GM4VAC-8
284.5 - miles away
49mph
Long distance APRS or some interesting signal bouncing?
Cheers
John
M0VAZ
Probably some infrastructure set up wrong and relaying packets incorrectly. Seen it several times on 2m APRS.
That’s a possibility, certainly some weirdness going on.
Well, GM0HBK-10 is a LoRa iGate (on 70cm), so you wouldn’t have been receiving that directly on 2m.
Similarly, GM4VAC-8 is running APRSDroid via the internet, not on RF.
At that speed, there’s only one logical explanation …. warp engines offline, using impulse power to rise to a higher orbit, the helm is answering but is a little sluggish. Uhura reports that there is no response on any standard Starfleet channels; however, she is getting something on low bands – it’s in old-style Morse Code but it doesn’t make any sense: “cq cq calling sota ….”
I discovered those bits of info as well which makes it even more strange.
It’s something more local relaying packets from the internet. I used to regularly receive packets (2m APRS) from the north of Scotland while walking over Shining Tor. Initially I thought it was some sort of lift but after it happened a few times I realised that it was something else. However I never discovered where they came from.
I’ve been out on summits and noticed that the last received message on my tracker was from G3CWI-something. This seemed completely out of range. When I got home I found from aprs.fi that it had been digipeated
How about this for LoRa APRS - look at the “Longest Distance” column:
But that was from a German pico-balloon, flying at about 10km altitude across Northern England:
When I first spotted it, I wondered why it was only being received by a couple of stations in the East Midlands and not by any other iGates in the country. I deduced that they were on an alternative frequency and guessed 433.775 (a popular EU APRS channel), so I re-tuned my iGate to listen for it.
