AP510 Tracker

Better all the time.   Radio, GPS, TNC, memory, thermometer, etc etc.   All for around $100 with Amazon Prime shipping.

Perhaps this will be the Ham Radio side of the Montana Lander...


2015-2-7  AP510 arrived at Zeus.  Downloaded files from the Yahoo group.  Watched helpful 9 minute video by Eric/KI4xxx - on how to configure hardware and software.
   *

Alternate download location for AP510 files

2015-2-8 Watched video again.  First pass at configuration.  Fortunately there were no issue on DLL's or serial drivers with my dated Vista laptop.

Visited 8GNJ - helped him set up his AP510.  His went fine - mine started acting weird.

Reinstalled Firmware in mine.  Now it's happy and acting normally.

2015-2-9 It's running.  Light turned solid blue for the first time while sitting on the car's dash.  Apparently that indicates GPS lock.   Note to self.  Beacons and beeps every 15 seconds is a bit much.  Reconfigure tonight to turn off beep and set transmission to nice sane 2 minutes.

2015-2-10  Reconfigured.  Changed SSID from -4 to -5 to be in sync with Herb.  The -5 is for 510..  Set beacon time to 125 seconds.  Turned off the beep.   Next time - turn off MIC-E to see what it looks like.  MIC-E is much shorter which is a good thing but we're curious how the packets are going to look.