I'm looking into getting a portable ham for primary use in the bush with APRS support (so I can transmit location to a digi-peater for wife/family to see at least once a night). Now because I am in BC, we have lots of water around, and I'm wondering if for my uses the 8GR is sufficient or if I should really pay the extra for the 8DR. I really would like the integrated GPS, but I think I could manually enter my gps coordinates by triangulating off a map and entering it in through the 8DR (vs buying the adapter).
Can anyone confirm first of all if this is correct or if you would definitely need to buy the adapter to send out coordinates to an APRS digipeater?
Secondly Will missing the 6m and 220mhz bands what would i be missing out on?
Any other features that are exclusive to the 8DR that you use often I'd be interested to hear also, as I am new to amateur radio, but want to buy once and be happy rather than buy once and be looking to upgrade soon.
Can anyone confirm first of all if this is correct or if you would definitely need to buy the adapter to send out coordinates to an APRS digipeater?
Secondly Will missing the 6m and 220mhz bands what would i be missing out on?
Any other features that are exclusive to the 8DR that you use often I'd be interested to hear also, as I am new to amateur radio, but want to buy once and be happy rather than buy once and be looking to upgrade soon.