Shoulder harness for gps

[redhawk]

I came across this as a method to carry the gps chest high for better reception and easy access along with space for a compass, radio and other stuff.

Radio chest harness

Great for digital camera too!

[Hakuna Matada]

I use a cell phone holder that attaches to a belt (or strap) and I attached it to the shoulder strap of my backpack. It provides unhindered reception and easy access as I hike.

[redhawk]

Polling multiple RINO Units at the same time.

I got this off the RINO forum on Yahoo. It explains how to find the location of several RINO units at once.

If you name all the units with the same first four characters, they will
all respond to a poll.

So, if you name your units
BOB
MARY
SUZI
JOHN

you will have to poll each unit.... but if you name them all

1234BOB
1234MARY
1234SUZI
1234JOHN,
you can poll 1234 and all will answer at a random time in the next 30
seconds. What I have done is to temporarily name a unit 1234 so it gets
stored in the base uint's contact list. That gives you the 1234 you
will need to poll all of the units.

We use this with the ham radio system APRS (instead of 1234) and name
our rino units APRSxxxxxx (where xxxxxx is the ham radio callsign of the
person with the rino), also in the South Carolina State Guard, we use
SCSG as the first 4.

Wes

Brad Baker wrote:

>Does anyone understand how to do RINO multi-polling. If you have,
>lets say 5 RINO's, I understand that there is a special way to name
>the units so that you can poll one unit and the 4 remaining units
>will respond and their positions will also be reported. I was
>wondering if anyone used this trick regularly and knew the baby steps
>to set it up and the ins and outs of the process?
>
>I got it to work a little by naming my base station gps rino unit
>BASE and then I named the second unit APRS and hit the send location
>button and got APRS to be a contact on my base station rino. Then I
>changed the name of the second unit from APRS to APRS01. When my
>base station rino polled for the APRS contact the APRS01 unit
>responded. I do the same procedure for the APRS02, APRS03 and APRS04
>units and I can get them all to answer the APRS poll (at least they
>show the response on their screens) but after a couple of times the
>position seems to stop changing no matter where I move the different
>units around my yard. I am using OziAPRS-RINO to map the unit
>locations. Again my question is "has anyone used this multi-polling
>feature and knows the rules and or limitations for working with it.
>

[redhawk]

530 - more to think about

The 530 comes with a rechargeable battery that is only good for 16 hours. Spare battery packs are $65.00 a pop!!