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Today's Topics:
1. Re: APRS -- Chicago to Mackinac Island sailboat race (Bill Borgstrom)
2. Re: APRS -- Chicago to Mackinac Island sailboat race (Steve Dimse)
3. Re: aprssig Digest, Vol 33, Issue 27 (Philip Koban)
4. Re: APRS -- Chicago to Mackinac Island sailboat race (Chris Rose)
5. RE: APRS -- Chicago to Mackinac Island sailboat race (WB4GQK_at_aol.com)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:26:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Borgstrom <bill_borgstrom_at_yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] APRS -- Chicago to Mackinac Island sailboat race
Steve
What you sent me is exactly what I'm looking for. However, I couldn't
download "validation.c"
The following link appears to be dead.
http://www.cnunix.com/ftp/hamradio/tapr/aprssig/aprsspec/aprstcp/
Please help me get a copy of validation.c
Thanks for your help
73 Bill N9TN
>Steve Dimse <steve_at_dimse.com> wrote:
>
>On Mar 26, 2007, at 6:10 PM, Bill Borgstrom wrote:
>>
>>My plan is to receive the Orbcomm emails with our boat position
>>reports. Parse out lat. lon. speed. heading. date and time and
>>form a raw packet. This I'm capable of doing this. I need help in
>>how to send the raw packet to APRServe Network. I would
>>appreciate any help you can give me.
>
>Google is your friend.
>
>The first part is the hard part, the rest is just connecting to the
>APRS Internet System, here is info on the login string
>
>http://www.aprs.net/valid.html
>
>If you don't have the validation number for your call, here is the code
>
>http://www.cnunix.com/ftp/hamradio/tapr/aprssig/aprsspec/aprstcp/
>validation.c
>
>Then just form an APRS packet and send it. The APRS protocol
>specification is at
>
>http://www.tapr.org/aprs_working_group.html
>
>Steve K4HG
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:33:35 -0400
From: Steve Dimse <steve_at_dimse.com>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] APRS -- Chicago to Mackinac Island sailboat race
On Mar 27, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Bill Borgstrom wrote:
>The following link appears to be dead.
>
>http://www.cnunix.com/ftp/hamradio/tapr/aprssig/aprsspec/aprstcp/
>Please help me get a copy of validation.c
Your emailer did not follow the link, the two lines need to be concatenated
in the URL
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:58:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Philip Koban <pek53_at_yahoo.com>
Subject: [aprssig] Re: aprssig Digest, Vol 33, Issue 27
Hello All,
I have a question and to see if I can get some help. I am fairly new to
APRS I found this PalmPocket APRS software and I got it to work on my Palm
Treo 650 and it works great now i need Colorado Maps for the PalmAPRS
software by Mike Musick can anybody get a hold of him so I can Pay for the
software??? This is Great software for this Treo 650 and my Kenwood
TH-D7AG !
Any help would be Greatly appreciated
Thanks!!
Philip K0BAN
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:59:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Chris Rose <kb8uih_at_sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] APRS -- Chicago to Mackinac Island sailboat
race
HI,
Did we converse in the past like last year about the mini form factor
layout of your computer and the automatic nav system? We may have covered
this before. It sounds very familiar. You advised me on the computer and
sources for getting parts to build one like it.
If not, someone else has something very similar to you in their boat.
What I was refering to is the Kenwood rigs that don't have to have any hand
holding to operate. I didnt' know or remember from our previous contact
that you were running APRS over HF. I made an assumption that you were
running VHF and I was thinking that you were putting much more into this
than you needed to. I just let my D700 or THD7 take GPS data and let them
run automatically over VHF. Apparently you have made very detailed plans.
I didn't mean to make your adventure any more troublesome than it already
may be.
If I can ask one question that you already may have stated in your first
post, what are the dates for the Lake races and are you going to make both
Chicago to Mack and then the other from Mack to Port Huron(or is it the
other way around)?
Thanks,
Chris
Midland, MI
KB8UIH
----- Original Message ----
>From: "WB4GQK_at_aol.com" <WB4GQK_at_aol.com>
>To: aprssig_at_lists.tapr.org
>Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 10:53:43 AM
>Subject: Re: [aprssig] APRS -- Chicago to Mackinac Island sailboat race
>
>Hi Chris
>
>Without going into a lot of race detail let me say I have raced our
>sailboat in five (5) open ocean sailboat races. Twice (2) in the Havana
>Cup, 1999 and 2000, and three times in the Isla Mujeres Mexico race. That
>was in 2002, 2003, 2005. Isla Mujeres is 20 miles East of Cancun Mexico. I
>used APRS in all 5 races. It was fully automatic. I never lifted a finger
>to input anything!
>
>First of all my first mate, N4TFP, is not fond of hard sailboat racing,
>which is perfect from my stand point ! I need strong armed grunts to handle
>the sails on my boat. I set up WinAPRS to transmit our position once an
>hour. It required 54 hours to race from the St Peterburg Yacht Club to the
>entrance buoy of the Hemingway Marina just west of Havana. The race from
>the St Petersburg Yacht Club to the entrance buoy of the harbor at Isla
>Mujeres required 84 hours for our best time. The race course is 509 miles.
>
>What is important to understand is the complete setup of the electronic
>devices connected to the computer. I use a MINI-ITX computer equipped with
>three (3) DB9 serial ports and two (2) USB serial ports. The MINI-ITX runs
>three (3) programs SIMULTANEOUSLY! That's correct, the MINI-ITX is a little
>slow handling all that computation but never the less it does handle all 3
>programs without a problem! Number 1 is the CAP'N navigation program, the
>second is WEATHERFAX 2000, and the third is WinAPRS.
>
>I'm sure you are familiar with the CAP'N navigation program since all it
>does is plot the boat's position on the chart and send correction signals
>to the boat's autopilot system. It keeps the boat within 50 yards of the
>planned course. The Wefax 2000 program is interesting since it is a "sound
>card" version. But in any event it controls a ICOM PCR1000 receiver to
>capture five (5) USCG WeatherFax transmissions every 4 hours. The PCR1000
>uses one of the DB9 serial ports for control of the receiver, and the
>output signal goes to the MINI-ITX's sound input system. There the weather
>fax is stored in individual files. I can view the latest Fax picture by
>just clicking on the Wefax symbol at the bottom of the screen. And finally
>the WinAPRS is running and set to transmit the boat's LAT, LON once every
>hour. Now in the Station Settings which you select from the top of the main
>menu I place the Callsign as WB4GQK-5 and I use Y as the sailboat Station
>Icon. In WinAPRS Settings you have to be sure and select HF TNC and GPS
>under the Automatic Input. Under the Posit Rate Settings Moving Position
>Report I put 60 in the HF block. Now down in the Alt HF Path 1 I put
>WB4GQK-1. That is the callsign I use on my base station at home. Now the
>point that is important to me is under the TNC Settings the Unproto path I
>use is WB4GQK-1,GATE,WIDE. I want to be sure and contact my home base
>station and my XYL. Finally the Garmin output is sent to one of the USB
>ports in the MINI-ITX.
>
>Basically that is the setup. Obviously the CAP'N navigation program is the
>principle display on the monitor. Now the output of the TNC is connected to
>my Icom M800 marine SSB. I have a number of frequencies stored in the M800
>one of which is the 30 meter ham frequency 10.151 LSB. So what I do when I
>am not checking in with the race officials I set the M800 on the 30M ham
>frequency and WinAPRS proceeds to transmit my position on the half hour,
>every hour for the entire race. At any time my wife wants to check on how
>we are doing she walks into the radio room here at the house and looks at
>the display. Now a couple of times a plot was not received due to poor
>propagation conditions. So my XYL simply selected NEW Message under Lists
>and keyed in WB4GQK-5 And queried "How are things going?" of course when
>the base station called the boat station obviously I was not available to
>answer BUT she got a reply that gave her our position at that instant. I
>would not realize she tried to contact us and I would go for a couple of
>hours before I stopped at the nav table and clicked on the WinAPRS symbol
>at the bottom of the screen.
>
>Actually the 3 other wives would come over to the house in the early
>evening to find out how we were doing. We had a schedule at 6 PM on 40
>meters. My crew and I discovered the 4 girls were having a party while we
>were bashing our brains out. I have a feeling they were smarter than we
>were.
>
>That's the story. The Garmin fed the LAT, LON data into the MINI-ITX which
>then took the position data and fed it into WinAPRS which controlled the
>KAM'98 which controlled the Icom M800 which transmitted our position on HF
>once an hour without anyone near the Nav table.
>
>If there is something further I can help you with I will be glad to try.
>73
>Jim
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:23:31 EDT
From: WB4GQK_at_aol.com
Subject: RE: [aprssig] APRS -- Chicago to Mackinac Island sailboat race
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