APRS

by **Joshua Gill** » Fri May 08, 2015 6:22 pm

Good morning, ICS,

First time poster here, new member, and a somewhat new owner of N232YP, a PA-24-250. I am interested in figuring out a 2m antenna solution for my Comanche so that I can get into APRS tracking. I did a little searching and found a post from many years ago:

I'm curious if anyone else has done something similar as DaveG24 (It seems he's no longer a member on the forms). What's the legality of this? I know there's an advisory circular (43.13-2B) on antenna installation and I'm not sure this through BNC suggestion complies with that.

Best,
Josh

by **Pat Donovan** » Fri May 08, 2015 6:55 pm

Suggest you go to www.vansairforce.com and look at the APRS tracking forum. Lots of information there and practical advice.

Pat

by **Joshua Gill** » Fri May 08, 2015 7:07 pm

by **Pat Donovan** » Fri May 08, 2015 7:27 pm

One of the latest posts concerned a portable unit usable in a certified aircraft.

Pat D

by **Pat Elliott** » Fri May 08, 2015 8:03 pm

Just use a vhf com antenna. Certified and close enough freq. Log it as handheld external antenna.

by **Joshua Gill** » Fri May 08, 2015 10:26 pm

by **Joshua Gill** » Thu May 14, 2015 2:14 am

Just in case anyone's interested, I purchased the AP510 and it seems to perform pretty well in the window. It's a little difficult to configure as the firmware must be upgraded before the configuration app will work properly and there are many versions of the firmware out there.

I took it for a quick test flight yesterday:

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