How about maybe the buoy system?
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/rmd.shtml
73, Jeff WB2SYK
________________________________ From: Joe Leikhim rhyolite@nettally.com To: bruninga@usna.edu; "amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org" amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 3:45 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: APRS on Bernuda and Atlantic
Bob; What would be the legality (maritime and otherwise) of a floating solar powered APRS equipped raft? I am thinking along the lines of a Styrofoam NERF-ball type approach that would pose little danger to ships but could be big enough for solar panels, APRS, GPS, weather station, camera and other experiments . Something that could serve as a relay as well as a data collection experiment. For comms, maybe APRS plus some high speed satellite data uplink, commercial or amateur. Think of it as an ocean going satellite!
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