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Part II: Advanced Hacks, Tools, and Techniques

Exhibit A: Bill of Materials

Item Quantity Notes

TinyTrack kit 1 TinyTrack3

FRS radio 2 Cobra, Motorola, Kenwood, ICOM, Bell

PDA 1 Any Palm OS 3.01 device with serial port

Palm Serial Port Adapter 1 Varies on Palm Model

TNC 1 HandiPacket from Paccomm, or a TNC kit

GPS Receiver 1 Garmin, Debosme, Magellin

Multi-meter 1

Soldering iron and solder 1 Low-wattage iron

DB9 connectors 4 2 male, 2 female

22-gauge wire 10’ Used to connect TinyTrack and radio

2-conductor plug 1

1/8” diameter stereo plug 1

3/16” diameter stereo plug 1

Exhibit B: Connection Cable Schematic Diagram

Exhibit A

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