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Today's Topics:
1. PDA APRS (Victor Fraenckel)
2. Re: PDA APRS (Curt, WE7U)
3. Re: PDA APRS (Stephen H. Smith)
4. RE: PDA APRS (Frank Keeney)
5. N1VG-11 Balloon Flight APRS Maps Now On My Website (Stephen H. Smith)
6. Re: N1VG-11 Balloon Flight APRS Maps Now On My Website (Gregg Wonderly)
7. Opinions for a small ultra compact notebook PC? (Jack Chomley)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:00:09 -0500
From: Victor Fraenckel <victorf_at_windreader.com>
Subject: [aprssig] PDA APRS
I would like to have a PDA type device with US street-level maps on
board and is APRS enabled. Does such a critter exist? If not, how can it
be done?
Any enlightenment will be appreciated.
Vic
Victor Fraenckel
KC2GUI
victorf ATSIGN windreader DOT com
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:05:11 -0800 (PST)
From: "Curt, WE7U" <archer_at_eskimo.com>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] PDA APRS
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Victor Fraenckel wrote:
>I would like to have a PDA type device with US street-level maps on
>board and is APRS enabled. Does such a critter exist? If not, how can it
>be done?
What sort of PDA?
PalmOS:
SmartPalm (no mapping)
PocketAPRS (no longer supported, but very usable)
WinCE:
APRSce
See: <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer/aprs_capabilities.html>
--
Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
"Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown
"Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U
"The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!"
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:15:34 -0800
From: "Stephen H. Smith" <wa8lmf2_at_aol.com>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] PDA APRS
victorf_at_windreader.com wrote:
>I would like to have a PDA type device with US street-level maps on
>board and is APRS enabled. Does such a critter exist? If not, how can
>it be done?
>
>Any enlightenment will be appreciated.
>
>Vic
Not if you are talking about a real PDA running the Palm or WinCE operating
system. The development of Pocket APRS for the Palm and APRSce for the
Pocket PC both died several years ago, and in any case were always limited
by the rather crude maps that only showed major roads and Interstates in
city-wide or regional scales.
Even if you had them, street level maps would be problematic on a PDA,
given the very small screen. You'd be scrolling incessantly every time a
mobile moved more than a mile or two.
The closest you will get is one of the new breed of "ultraportable" PCs
that are about three times the size of a PDA but run "real" Windows. You
will still have to contend with the odd shape or resolution screens, but in
principle it should be possible to get a standard APRS application (UIview,
APRSplus, etc) to run on it.
One approach might be to use a TH-D7 or D700 in combination with a mapping
GPS. The Kenwoods have the capability to send posits received from their
internal TNCs to the GPS as NMEA waypoints tagged with callsigns that then
get plotted on the GPS's map display.
--
Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com
EchoLink Node: 14400 [Think bottom of the 2M band]
Home Page: http://wa8lmf.com --OR-- http://wa8lmf.net
NEW! TNC Test CD
http://wa8lmf.net/TNCtest
JavAPRS Filter Port 14580 Guide
http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/JAVaprsFilters.htm
"APRS 101" Explanation of APRS Path Selection & Digipeating
http://wa8lmf.net/DigiPaths
Updated "Rev G" APRS http://wa8lmf.net/aprs
Symbols Set for UI-View,
UIpoint and APRSplus:
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:54:54 -0800
From: "Frank Keeney" <kg6jve_at_gmail.com>
Subject: RE: [aprssig] PDA APRS
I've detailed my setup for street level maps here:
http://snurl.com/ultimatePDA
Unfortunately, I've found APRSce lacking a few features and does not work
well with Bluetooth on my PDA.
Frank Keeney
Blog: http://www.unwiredadventures
Work: http://www.wlanparts.com
Photos: http://snurl.com/unwirephotos
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:27:03 -0800
From: "Stephen H. Smith" <wa8lmf2_at_aol.com>
Subject: [aprssig] N1VG-11 Balloon Flight APRS Maps Now On My Website
Maps of the N1VG-11 balloon flight on Sunday November 12, generated by
UIview combined with UI-HeightTrack, are now posted on my website at:
http://wa8lmf.net/N1VG_Balloon
This includes both an altitude-color-coded track of the entire flight,
and enlarged details of parts of the flight, along with an elevation
vs time graph of the entire flight.
--
Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com
EchoLink Node: 14400 [Think bottom of the 2M band]
Home Page: http://wa8lmf.com --OR-- http://wa8lmf.net
NEW! TNC Test CD
http://wa8lmf.net/TNCtest
JavAPRS Filter Port 14580 Guide
http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/JAVaprsFilters.htm
"APRS 101" Explanation of APRS Path Selection & Digipeating
http://wa8lmf.net/DigiPaths
Updated "Rev G" APRS http://wa8lmf.net/aprs
Symbols Set for UI-View,
UIpoint and APRSplus:
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 23:05:18 -0600
From: Gregg Wonderly <gregg_at_wonderly.org>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] N1VG-11 Balloon Flight APRS Maps Now On My
Website
Stephen H. Smith wrote:
>Maps of the N1VG-11 balloon flight on Sunday November 12, generated by
>UIview combined with UI-HeightTrack, are now posted on my website at:
>http://wa8lmf.net/N1VG_Balloon
>
>This includes both an altitude-color-coded track of the entire flight,
>and enlarged details of parts of the flight, along with an elevation
>vs time graph of the entire flight.
I've placed google earth screen shots from aprskml plots on the
http://aprskml.dev.java.net page for three different flights this past
weekend.
Gregg Wonderly
W5GGW
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:25:51 +1000
From: Jack Chomley <radio_at_dodo.com.au>
Subject: [aprssig] Opinions for a small ultra compact notebook PC?
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I am looking for a windoze O/S based notebook PC for my APRS and data comms
station. Want to operate portable, reason for the small physical size.
Have Toshiba E800 PDA, lack of a keyboard and decent software is a problem
so its no good me using a PDA.
Any ideas appreciated.
Jack Chomley VK4JRC
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