In a few weeks I'm going from San Diego to Brazil along the
pacific coasts of Mexico, Central and South America then around
Santiago Chile driving across Argentina to Uruguay and up through the
south of Brazil. I was wondering if a APRS system reporting to nets or
a sattlites would be viable along this route? Are there maps or
internet sites where I could verify that? I never used packet or APRS
before. Ideally I'd like to take a vhf "tracker" with built in APRS, and be
able to have that data read and uploaded to websites along the
way..I'm thinking that is probably easy to do in the states but I
don't know about where we are going - there might not be too many hams
around. That's why I was curious about satellites. The other option
might be HF or cellular phone APRS but I'm concerned about cost and
complexity - I don't know what equipment I need or how to do it. I
have some old VHF radio shack HTs and a Garmin II+ GPS. I'm thinking
about bringing a GSM cel phone like T-mobile (USA) or TIM (from
Brazil) mainly for emergencies and SMS messaging.
Thanks!
Dave KB2RVJ
San Diego, CA USA