A walk in the sunshine with the Ventus GPS tracker

As the weather was so beautiful this afternoon (full sun and around 13 deg C) I decided to do a country walk and track my progress using the Ventus GPS data logger bought from Martin Lynch and Sons.  The walk was 10.7km and took about 2hrs 34 minutes with a couple of relaxing breaks for a drink and a snack.  No ham radio gear was taken this time, because I forgot to charge up my VX2 handheld. Next time, HI.  Incidentally Quy was where my optical beacon reached (over the horizon) a few weeks ago. When you walk that far it seems a VERY long way away!

This is a plot of the walk taken with the low cost GPS tracker  then plotted with Google Earth.

Today's walk in the Cambridgeshire countryside

Walking in Devon

No posts for a few days as I've been away staying with my 68 year old brother in South Devon. I managed a couple of nice walks along the cliffs and lanes in the cold bright winter sunshine. I believe in the Met Office definition of winter starting Dec 1st. The lanes were VERY muddy but Salcombe, my home town in my childhood was quiet and beautiful.

My 2 Devon walks plotted using the G730 GPS tracker

My Ventus G730 GPS tracker - available for around £34 from Martin Lynch - plotted the 2 walks.  One was around 14km and the other 16.5km.

This shot is of the coastal path near Thurlestone. There are a few nice seats on the walk and I have worked some good HF and VHF pedestrian portable DX from them, although I took no radio gear this time.

GPS Route Logger

Last week I bought a Ventus G730 GPS Route Logger from Martin Lynch for £34.95. Today I tried it out for the first time on a walk in the bright autumn sunshine at Ickworth park, near Bury St Edmunds. I am totally delighted with it.

The map below shows the route taken as plotted on Google Earth. The data that comes out of the logger shows route taken, speed (average and instantaneous) , distance traveled, and altitude up and down. If linked to a digital camera file it can be used to geotag photos on a walk. I am very impressed that something this small shoved in your pocket can produce such fun results. I now need to find a use for this in my amateur radio experiments.

Google Earth plot of a walk today using data from the Ventus GPS logger