On Saturday, August 20, 2005, eight intrepid men and their vintage Ferguson tractors started out to cross Austalia’s Simpson Desert. The owner\/drivers are farmers, contractors and tradesmen from Swan Hill, Shepparton, Walpeup and Young. <\/p>\n
With their support teams, the group intends to take eight days to cross 505km of some of the toughest terrain in Australia, The Simpson Desert.<\/p>\n
You can be there whilst they trek to the Birdsville Races by checking in on the Tracking WWW site. http:\/\/www.ausgpstracking.com.au\/<\/a><\/p>\n
The trip is the brainchild of team leader Des Devereux, a Swan Hill identity who has for 20 years been a tireless organiser of events to raise money for worthy causes. <\/p>\n
During the trip the team hopes to attract an interest by the public to raise money for the National Depression Initiative program called “Beyond Blue”. <\/p>\n
If you have GoogleEarth loaded you can also be there by adding http:\/\/202.173.135.68\/ge\/<\/a> as a ‘Network Link’ inside the Google Earth application and tell it to update every 15 minutes (More instructions available on http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web\/teamtrack\/googlesetup.html<\/a>)<\/p>\n Radioactive Networks software is being used in the back end to collect the GPS positions, and show them. <\/p>\n The technical details are described on this site – http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web\/teamtrack\/white.html<\/a><\/p>\n And until things are fully operational you can see the snapshots on this link http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web\/teamtrack\/live.html<\/a><\/p>\n Darryl<\/p>\n P.S. If you see an image on the screen during the event that should not be there [Like a dialog box] please contact me ASAP…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Saturday, August 20, 2005, eight intrepid men and their vintage Ferguson tractors started out to cross Austalia’s Simpson Desert. The owner\/drivers are farmers, contractors and tradesmen from Swan Hill, Shepparton, Walpeup and Young. With their support teams, the group …<\/p>\n