Lincoln Marathon this Sunday!

Here are some shots of the Ham radio equipment I will be installing on my bike tonight. Besides voice communication on 146 MHz (2 meter voice radio not shown), I have APRS on the back of the bike. APRS stands for Automatic Position Reporting System. Once the little box on the top tube is programmed from a computer serial port, it is ready to send out my call-sign and GPS data every 2 minutes along the Lincoln Marathon route. You can see the GPS "hockey puck" mounted on the left fork. The radio on the rack is a Yaesu FT-60R (5 watts out). This transmits into the 1/4 wave antenna mounted off the back of the rack. If you want to follow along, the GPS data can be viewed on the web in almost real time. Here are links to some online tracking websites:

http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=WB0DGF-4

http://maps.aprsworld.net/map/track.phtml?call=WB0DGF-4&skipTable=0&skipBogusCheck=0&showRawPackets=0&start_weeks=0&start_days=0&start_hours=48&start_minutes=0&end_weeks=0&end_days=0&end_hours=0&end_minutes=0&time_search=1

Don't try viewing these until about 7 am Sunday, as before then it will show nothing, or just random testing of the equipment. You should be able to see my track on one of the sites from 7am until about 9:45 am Sunday. It will also store it online for a few days.