so I missed the date

it was in 2011 but amazing any way!

http://www.trackuino.org/

http://www.trackuino.org/
had to post when I found and you can follow real time on the map.
http://aprs.fi/?call=K6RPT-11
a balloon on a mission.
build your own from http://code.google.com/p/trackuino/

UV-3R trick!

If you want to use it as a scanner and are worried you may touch the TX button on a frequency you are not licenced for. The trick is to set the repeater shift to 39.99Mhz on vhf or 69.99Mhz on uhf and the software will stop you transmitting outside the band.( 136-174 MHz and 400-470 MHz)

Also the volume button opens the squelch if you hold it down. Seen this one here http://www.uv3r.com/images/UV_3R_CheatSheet.pdf

they sell them at http://www.uv3r.com/Index.html not where I got mine, so can’t vouch for them.

seen some very brightly coloured ones on e-bay as well.
by the way I set this up on the VFO's for UHF and VHF and got in a real knot when I had to QSY from my stored repeater channel.