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Today's Topics:
1. APRS Symbol Names (Robert Bruninga)
2. RE: Eagle Scout Icon - Was Re: [aprssig] APRS data for Scout Events
(Scott Miller)
3. RE: dos on a winxp machine (Danny Messano)
4. Easy Xastir (was: dos on a winxp machine) (Curt, WE7U)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 12:09:16 -0500
From: "Robert Bruninga" <bruninga_at_usna.edu>
Subject: [aprssig] APRS Symbol Names
>>/[ jogger - over 229 worldwide. Presumably all on foot,
>>but I would be willing to bet that not very many of them
>>were actually jogging.
I ask everyone to take the "naming convention" of the APRS symbols with a
grain of salt. Some of the names are a stretch for two reasons.
1) One was an attempt to try to describe what it looked like, not what it
was used for.
2) All symbols in the original APRSdos menu's were selected by their first
character. Thus some wierrd names had to be invented to avoid any
conflicts.
So the "humanoid" figure is not just a jogger, but it let me use "j" in the
menu and refer to about what it looked like. But the interpretation would
be that anyone who was on foot or ski's or hiking boots, or snow shoes or
was uwing an HT or other radio not otherwise in a vehicle or structure,
would likely use that symbol.
Hope that helps people understand some of the strange names given to
symbols.
Bob,Wb4APR
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 09:16:05 -0800
From: "Scott Miller" <scott_at_opentrac.org>
Subject: RE: Eagle Scout Icon - Was Re: [aprssig] APRS data for Scout
Events
I meant this one:
http://www.ieer.org/trefoil.gif
Though the atom one might be useful, too. The trefoil implies danger,
which might not be what you want. For that matter, an oscilloscope trace
or something might be useful for electrical stuff or general telemetry.
Scott
N1VG
>-----Original Message-----
>
>>Separate symbols to distinguish between manned and unmanned
>>balloons would be nice. How about a radiation trefoil? Might
>>be good for radiation counters and such.
>
>I like that latter one. Are you describing something that looks
>like an atom with a few protons and a few electrons in orbit?
>The reason I like it is that it is a nice generic Electrical
>symbol that APRS users might find a variety of uses for. Yes,
>it could be used for radioation detetors, but also for other
>thinigs (kind of watering it down I guess, but making it more
>useful?)
>Bob
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 12:25:49 -0500
From: "Danny Messano" <danny_at_messano.net>
Subject: RE: [aprssig] dos on a winxp machine
After some digging, I found this link for a HowTo on Xastir/Vmware, and
links to some prebuilt VM's... Nice!
http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:VMware
I'm home sick today, and need something to do while I am not doing
anything, so I think I'm going to try a FreeDOS/APRSdos VM and see how it
goes.
Danny Messano
KE4RAP
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 09:39:39 -0800 (PST)
From: "Curt, WE7U" <archer_at_eskimo.com>
Subject: [aprssig] Easy Xastir (was: dos on a winxp machine)
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Danny Messano wrote:
>After some digging, I found this link for a HowTo on Xastir/Vmware, and
>links to some prebuilt VM's... Nice!
>
>http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:VMware
>
>I'm home sick today, and need something to do while I am not doing anything,
>so I think I'm going to try a FreeDOS/APRSdos VM and see how it goes.
Have fun!
For any of you that already have a Linux instance, or perhaps Linux
inside VMWare Player or Microsoft Virtual Machine, here's another
something-something to play with:
That's a pre-compiled Xastir for any Linux that is LSB-compliant (Linux
Standard Base). On some Linux OS'es you'll need to install an "lsb"
package first to make them compliant.
The package up there is fresh as of today and includes Shapefile support,
topo support, online map support, the list goes on an on.
See the README.txt file there to see just how easy it is to install and
run:
--
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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