Naval Academy 2003 Ball Run
Bob Bruninga, WB4APR USNA Satellite Ground Station
Midn 1/c Sterling, Midn 1/c Trembula, W3ADO Radio Club
CLICK HERE FOR CURRENT BALL POSITION
CLICK HERE FOR the Shuttle Van POSITION
OVERVIEW: On 5 Dec, at Noon, 130 midshipmen from the 13th Company began running the Army/Navy game football 130 miles from Annapolis to the stadium in Philly. The Satellite Lab and USNA Radio Club maintains comms with the runners using GPS and APRS relayed in part by the Naval Academy's PCsat Satellite and International Space Station's Amateur transponder . This is an annual event since 1983 (or so). See last year's Football 2002 event!
ENROUTE This photo was from 2001 as they headed up route 2.
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The above street maps only show the Football position. The following map ran javAPRS live and showed all amateur radio APRS stations participating or in the vicinity of the Football and Shuttle vehicles. Now this map is running a replay of the 2001 event.
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| List stations, Show Status or Messages to Java console | |
| Centers or Zooms map on clicked location | |
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The Remainder of this page is not being used this year (2003)
Remote Amateur Radio Ken-Cam LIVE Images (2002):
The following section was updated in real time* via amateur radio link whenever new images were received from the lead vehicle. Most images were taken by the handheld Ken-Cam during changes in runners at each of the legs. (Also, see 1998's Photos). 1999's Photos). Here are the new photos as they came in via HAM radio:.
These images are transmitted back live via Amateur radio using what is called SSTV, Slow Scan TV. HAMS have been doing this for over 30 years, but now with WEB technology, we can instantly post these live images to our WEB page too...
APRN BACKGROUND: APRN (Automatic Picture Relay Network) is a live amateur radio channel for the transmission of remote KEN-CAM images. We can even automatically place the station on the map if he uses an attached GPS unit. Thus this APRN web page is automatic and catalogs, indexes and makes available images instantly. There is no better mechanism than APRN for diseminating real-time, in-the-field images from amateur radio operators in support of emergencies or public service events. APRN augments the worldwide APRS amateur radio position reporting and mesaging system by giving vision to remote and mobile operations.
APRN is a concept presented by Bob Bruninga, WB4APR at the Digital Communication Conference in Chicago, 25 September 1998 and his robotic VISION system presented at the DCC in Baltimore, Sept 1997.
Here is also a replay of the 1993 Army-Navy game football run to NJ Meadowlands(picture)
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starting at 4000 the morning of 5 Dec 2003.
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