APRS and mission tracking

[lordmonar]

+1

If we are working agains anyone that has a stong intel process....nothing that CAP does or does not do is going to stop them from getting the intel they want.

The will simply pay someone in the CD shop to provide them with the info. 

And the targets we are tracking are not all that dynamic.  It is not like they will spot us on the APRS web site and say "Here they come, let's get out of town!"

[RADIOMAN015]

I believe that our Cessna 182 fleet has ADS-B installed and this can be monitored (aircraft tracked) with the purchase of ADS-B monitoring equipment. Example see:
http://www.airnavsystems.com/radarbox/index.html

Another option (which is private) is to install an asset/vehicle tracking transponder in the aircraft.  Example of what appears to be a cost effective system  see:
http://www.spidertracks.com/

RM

[sardak]

A list of CAP aircraft being tracked as part of an ADS-B study shows only two with ADS-B, both 182Ts, but both with position information not available. There are 104 182s on the list without it, of which 98 are 182Ts.

Having ADS-B, with position data enabled, would be sweet, but expensive, a lot more than the 406 ELT installations, and how many years did that take? Since ADS-B isn't planned to be required for many more years, I wouldn't expect it on CAP aircraft until it's required.

The Radarbox and SBS-1 will track Mode-S, which all the aircraft have, but that doesn't provide position data, just that the airplane is powered on and that the beacon can be received.

The OP mentioned Spidertracks.

Mike

[c172drv]

Going back to APRS, CAP used it in AZ Wing for a while.  It was great for the most part.  Still a few dead spots but with no authorized way to move data now it won't work.  We used the old packet system to shuttle the data around the entire state via a few data  chains, one that would even use all the airborne aircraft to circulate position reports.  It all fed into the MMU, predecessor to the IMU and you could see all the planes working in the grids and what grids were hot.

[Robborsari]

There is a spot input tool in the gridassist module in IMU. 

You can create several kinds of shared pages from the same spot data and switch them on and off.

If you are doing a mission that requires restricted access to the position data set a password on the shared page.
It does not have to be the same password that gives access to the account and management info.