[SMCARA] Re: APRS Buoy underway

[A.J. Farmer]

Looks like they retrieved the buoy today.  I'm sure they will send it
out again as they continue to test.

A.J.

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:45 PM, A.J. Farmer <farmer.aj at gmail.com> wrote:
> Bob Bruninga and his midshipmen students at the Naval Academy are
> doing an APRS Buoy experiment right now.  This is something that has
> been discussed for years.  Basically, it is a free floating buoy with
> batteries and a solar panel and an APRS beacon to report back
> telemetry.  They let it go in the Severn river about a week ago, and
> it has finally made it into the bay.  You can view it's current
> position here:
>
> http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=BUOY-4
>
> Here is a position track:
>
> http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/track.cgi?call=BUOY-4&geo=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aj3u.com%2Faprs%2Fsomd.geo&start=10000
>
> Keep checking the links over the coming days and weeks to see where it goes.
>
> My understanding is this is a first stage towards what is to be an
> ocean floating buoy that will report telemetry to an orbiting APRS
> satellite.  Pretty cool stuff.
>
> Here is the website that describes the project:
>
> http://eng.usna.navy.mil/~bruninga/buoy.html
>
> A.J.
>