miso@sushi.com wrote:

New shacks, just wired up the day before the photograph was shot:
http://www.lazygranch.com/images/warmsprings/new_shack.jpg

I wrote to the trustee for the APRS digis up there,
asking him if it might be his antenna. His reply -

"The antenna in question has been identified
 as a very old low band VHF
 ground plane, once used by Nevada Highway Patrol."

FWIW, APRS coverage seems really good up in the area
of the base. LV, of course, is really well covered.
I've tracked mobiles in all areas of US 95 west of
the ranges and on US 6 and a lot of areas north
of US 6 up to and north of I-80.

Live at 0412 hrs GMT, 20 Jan, 2009
http://mm.aprs.net/map.cgi?map=usawest.mp&lat=38.19200&lon=-116.41750&call=*&last=1&black=0&maplist=master.txt&width=640&height=480


Weather station at Tonopah
http://aprs.fi/?call=ke7gds&mt=p&z=7&timerange=3600
Click on "Show All" to see stations in the area.

I tracked a guy in a mobile that appeared to be
4x4ing around some of the abandoned mines north
of Tonopah yesterday. Even when he was slow speed,
on site, I was seeing his timed beacons every 2min
showing his location, speed, elevation etc.

Amazing that there's such good coverage for such
a sparce area.


Craig 'Lumpy' Lemke

www.n0eq.com