Use of OGN to track club aircraft

It's been admittedly a lousy spring for soaring in Houston this year so we have had much time to do maintenance and upgrades on the fleet (if this weather keeps up, snorkels will be next). I have been installing FLARM in our club aircraft this winter, purely for the anti-collision features. It seems to me that making that position information available to our field officer of the day would be quite useful, and this has led me to OGN.

A few items...

1) There don't seem to be any OGN receivers operating in the USA. Is there a reason for this?

2) most of our serious cross country pilots use SPOT, and we often have the glideport.aero website up on the big screen in the clubhouse so people on the ground can see what is going on. Would love to be able to combine our locally created radio derived tracking information with the satellite derived data and get a single view. Anybody from glideport.aero want comment on this, would love to work with you on that. Maybe there is a way to do it already.

3) The DIY OGN tracking transmitters are a great fit for us for this application. We are only slowly building out FLARM in the fleet as it costs a couple thousand dollars per ship to outfit. I could add tracking so we could at least see the whole fleet for $50 per ship. We have 7 aircraft in the fleet, so money is pretty significant.

4) radio range won't be a big problem for us as its flat here and we have friends at airports all over the area. We can get good coverage of a wide area, but would still like to hear what people get for range so I can plan. Really... No hype.

Thoughts?


Mark