Mars is a repurpose of the Venus controller and is destined for the BB control room. It has an Atmega128 with two serial interfaces, an RS232 on Uart1 and an RS485 on Uart 0. The controller will use the RS232 port to interface with a TT4 microtracker. The TT4 has a 500 mw transceiver on 14.39, the national APRS frequency. The goal will be to format the packets as APRS telemetry packets which will allow them to be stored on a FINDU server I think. They will show up as KO4BD telemetry info. Hopefully with some software to access the Findu server I can display the latest Bluebird temperature info, both inside and outside.

March 2010 update: MARS using a TT4 and the Yaesu radio shows up on aprs.fi. Data is formatted as telemetry and transmits2 different temperatures and the humidity as well as 8 bits of one bit (on/off) status. This project needs a companion power monitor board.