North Cape
So the northernmost point of our record attempt is reached! It is incredibly bright even at midnight! And extremely cold and windy.
We now drive the have 150 km back to our hotel.
So der nördlichste Punkt unseres Rekordversuches ist auch erreicht! Es ist unglaublich hell für diese Uhrzeit! Und extrem kalt und windig.
Wir fahren nun noch 150 km zurück in unser Hotel.
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Gratulation zum erreichen des Nordkaps. Am jetzt also nur noch nach unten. Sollte also leichter gehen abwärts zu fahren, da braucht man weniger Strom als aufwärts. Bin mir sicher das Ihr das schafft.
Hallo Harald
Vielen herzlichen Dank! Ja jetzt geht es erst mal lange runter 🙂
Aber bis nach Istanbul ist es noch weit. Wir sind jedoch zuversichtlich, das
wir nach Norwegen auch wieder etwas schneller vorwärts kommen.
Hier sind die Tempolimiten absolut einschläfernd!
Congrats! Just a quick question about your statement on the live tracking page “The position upload to the geostationary satellites is difficult since they are only around 10° over the horizon. So already small hills block the transmission from the car to the receiving satellites.” Somehow I doubt that you are *sending* to satellites. I guess this is just a normal GPS software like “where am I right now” (i.e. receive only) and then this software uses the *internet* (i.e. a mobile data connection) to upload/display the current location on a map. Isn’t this how it works?
Hello Markus
To get the position the tracker uses GPS and that works fine. But the SPOT Gen3 tracker does not send the positions via a mobile data connection. Instead it sends a data packet every 2.5 min. on 1.611 GHz to the Globalstar simplex data network. So it is not dependant on mobile phone networks. ( http://www.findmespot.eu/en/index.php?cid=108#howitworks )
But I was wrong describing them as geostationary or geosynchronous satellites. They are different: (according to http://www.n2yo.com/satellites/?c=17)
Each Globalstar satellite consists of an antenna, a trapezoidal body, two solar arrays and a magnetometer, and operates at an altitude of 1,414km (876 miles). The satellites are placed in eight orbital planes of six satellites each, inclined at 52° to provide service on Earth from 70° North latitude to 70° South latitude.
So sending south is not a bad idea, but it depends more if one of the satellites is near the position of the tracker while it sends the data packet. Since they can reach up (at best) to fly over Amsterdam or almost Berlin, the are significantly lower (1’400 km instead of 36’000 km over the earth)
Wow, thanks for the detailed reply. I didn’t know you were using SPOT, I totally forgot about this solution. Now it makes sense. Thank you!!! 🙂 When we were going to Russia with our Model S we also provided the live location to our blog visitors but we were using an Android phone + greenalp GPS app and simply always bought a local SIM card in the country we were in. This worked just fine. Actually, two SIM cards because another phone was used for live video broadcasting from within the car 🙂 If you want to take a look (also at the recorded driven GPS track) have a look at our blog http://TeslaGoesEast.blogspot.de