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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Packet Node on 144.390 ? (Gregg Wonderly)
2. SV: [aprssig] APRS antenna for an airplane (Rikard Sohlberg)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 04:33:08 +0200
From: Gregg Wonderly <gregg_at_wonderly.org>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] Packet Node on 144.390 ?
Ray McKnight wrote:
Airmail is a native Winderz app, but as has been pointed out if you
>can get Wine to work you can run Airmail under emulation in Linux.
>Airmail is absolutely NOT a necessary interface to WinLink. It's simply
>another widget intended to present non-technical people a familiar interface
>to make them more comfortable using the system, and reduce training and
>set-up time, especially in places like an EOC where you might have dozens
>of non-Hams from many different backgrounds needing to send e-mail. By
>giving them a familiar Outlook-style interface it makes the stress level go
>down.
I've argued with them about making the choice to write windows only
software. In this day and age, there is absolutely no reason to do that.
There are many different common GUI libraries for the C language that make
multi OS programming possible. There is also Java, which makes it
extremely trivial to write "runs everywhere" software, with zero porting
work. I created a project at http://openlink.dev.java.net where I started
by recreating the airmail UI. It's still pretty bare, because I just have
too many other things going on. But, anyone who can do the work of filling
in the actions, can take the GUI that I've created and go at it.
It should be possible to create a very viable PSK implementation in Java.
However, right now, all the DSP work seems to be focused on windows or
C/x86-asm environments. That is such a shame to see all that work not
supporting the whole amatuer radio service.
Gregg Wonderly
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 18:45:30 +0200
From: "Rikard Sohlberg" <rikard.sohlberg_at_home.se>
Subject: SV: [aprssig] APRS antenna for an airplane
I have successfully used a quarterwave whip on my PockeTracker in a glider.
We mounted the whip inside the cockpit, along the edge of the canopy.
Excellent results.
73
SM0JWX/AM
Rikard
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