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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Urgent - need help with OpenTracker cable (Jason Winningham)
2. Re: Urgent - need help with OpenTracker cable (Robert Rochte)
3. RE: Urgent - need help with OpenTracker cable (Herb Gerhardt)
4. Re: Urgent - need help with OpenTracker cable (Jason Winningham)
5. Re: APRS WX question... (Ben Lindner)
6. RE: Urgent - need help with OpenTracker cable (Bruce S. Harris)
7. SDG-2 aloft now! (Robert Rochte)
8. SDG-2 update (Robert Rochte)
9. RE: APRS -- Chicago to Mackinac Island sailboat race (Bill Borgstrom)
10. Re: APRS -- Chicago to Mackinac Island sailboat race (Jason Winningham)
11. SSID for RF only Station with backup power (Bill Vodall WA7NWP)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 12:06:27 -0500
From: Jason Winningham <jdw_at_eng.uah.edu>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] Urgent - need help with OpenTracker cable
I can't remember the details (as they say I've slept since then) but the
cable was straightforward - just populate the board with all the parts
provided then tie the appropriate pin directly to the mic input on the
radio. This is for the Alinco, Yaesu, and Icom radios we've flown.
I think I ignorantly added an external resistor and capacitor to one rig
(copied the KPC-3 cable) and it worked fine, but I removed them and it
still worked fine. In fact, it flew yesterday.
-Jason
kg4wsv
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 13:19:35 -0400
From: "Robert Rochte" <rochte_at_gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] Urgent - need help with OpenTracker cable
Thanks. I'm thinking that there must be something wrong with this board (it
has sat in a box for a long time)...
Next question: Anyone have step-by-step instructions for turning a KPC-3+
into a modern-paradigm APRS tracker? I haven't programmed this thing in
years and haven't a clue where to start. I want it to function as a dumb
tracker (no listening).
Thanks.
-R
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 10:27:23 -0700
From: "Herb Gerhardt" <hgerhardt_at_wavecable.com>
Subject: RE: [aprssig] Urgent - need help with OpenTracker cable
Our web site has all the instructions you need.
Check it out at: http://www.nwaprs.info/mobilesettings.htm
Herb, KB7UVC
NW APRS Group, West Sound Coordinator
Our WEB Site: http://www.nwaprs.info
>-----Original Message-----
>
>Thanks. I'm thinking that there must be something wrong with this board
>(it has sat in a box for a long time)...
>
>Next question: Anyone have step-by-step instructions for turning a KPC-3+
>into a modern-paradigm APRS tracker? I haven't programmed this thing in
>years and haven't a clue where to start. I want it to function as a dumb
>tracker (no listening).
>
>Thanks.
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 12:50:04 -0500
From: Jason Winningham <jdw_at_eng.uah.edu>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] Urgent - need help with OpenTracker cable
On Apr 8, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Robert Rochte wrote:
>Anyone have step-by-step instructions for turning a KPC-3+ into a
>modern-paradigm APRS tracker?
1 - put it on ebay
2 - sell it for $150
3 - buy an OpenTracker
4 - pocket $120
-Jason
kg4wsv
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 07:33:27 +0930
From: Ben Lindner <vk5jfk_at_activ8.net.au>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] APRS WX question...
Any TNC in "Transparent" mode including the KPC3+ and 9612+ will handle
the Davis output string with the data logger that Davis has. I have this
system operating at my QTH as I type.
Ben Lindner
VK5JFK
Richard Sharp, KQ4KX wrote:
>Byonics does have a version of the WXTrak that sends positioned weather
>packets. The chip version that he sent me is v1.2b2 - it works like a
>champ. He's also added the Davis support however I only use Peet Bros.
>equipment so I can't comment on its functionality.
>
>I'm in the process of switching over several weather stations from the Peet
>Bros. hex "packet data" format with the KPC3+ LT buffers to interfacing a
>WXTrak with the TNC. In this configuration the TNC will do the digipeating
>and the WXTrak will send the positioned APRS standard formatted weather data
>that can be read on the Kenwoods. Byon has created another version that I'm
>testing now (v1.2b4) that recognizes the PTT-IN like the TinyTrak does. My
>concept is the TNC's PTT will connect to the WXTrak's PTT-IN pin and the
>WXTrak's PTT-OUT will control the radio's PTT. This way the WXTrak will not
>transmit if the TNC is transmitting (digipeating). Right now on the bench
>it works great - I haven't put it on the air at an actual digi site yet but
>I don't anticipate any issues.
>
>For what its worth...when I setup the Peet hex "packet data" with the TNC I
>set the position LT & weather LT to transmit at the same time. This way
>they go out one after another "sort of" creating a positioned weather
>packet.
>
>Regards,
>
>Richard
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: aprssig-bounces_at_lists.tapr.org
[mailto:aprssig-bounces_at_lists.tapr.org]
>On Behalf Of Daron J. Wilson
>
>I believe the Byonics can parse the Davis stream, we first used the device
>on our weather stations with a KPC3+ and a Peet Bros system because we
>wanted to generate 'Kenwood readable' weather. Dumping the Peet Bros
>station into the KPC3+ will yield a form of the weather data, but it isn't
>compliant with the spec and it isn't readable on the kenwoods. We started
>with the WxTracker using it to get the weather data out in a Kenwood
>compatible format, but there were some issues with that as well. Weather
>went out in one packet and position in another, which isn't so great.
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 21:33:02 -0500
From: "Bruce S. Harris" <bsh_at_opencominc.com>
Subject: RE: [aprssig] Urgent - need help with OpenTracker cable
just thought I would send this to you both as you both have the radio and
this may help !!! Bruce 73
At 12:27 4/8/2007, you wrote:
>Our web site has all the instructions you need.
>
>Check it out
>at:
><http://www.nwaprs.info/mobilesettings.htm>http://www.nwaprs.info/mobilesettin.
gshtm
>
>
>Herb, KB7UVC
>NW APRS Group, West Sound Coordinator
>Our WEB Site: <http://www.nwaprs.info/>http://www.nwaprs.info
>-----Original Message-----
>From: aprssig-bounces_at_lists.tapr.org
>[mailto:aprssig-bounces_at_lists.tapr.org]On Behalf Of Robert Rochte
>Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 10:20 AM
>To: TAPR APRS Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [aprssig] Urgent - need help with OpenTracker cable
>
>Thanks. I'm thinking that there must be something wrong with this
>board (it has sat in a box for a long time)...
>
>Next question: Anyone have step-by-step instructions for turning a
>KPC-3+ into a modern-paradigm APRS tracker? I haven't programmed
>this thing in years and haven't a clue where to start. I want it to
>function as a dumb tracker (no listening).
>
>Thanks.
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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 22:55:41 -0400
From: "Robert Rochte" <rochte_at_gmail.com>
Subject: [aprssig] SDG-2 aloft now!
Our second superpressure balloon, SDG-2, is now aloft! This mission has
been one of many mishaps and miscalculations - the balloon just impacted a
brick wall, for instance, on the way out of here...
No telling what will happen with this flight... The free lift is very low
(I had to perform surgery on the payload and remove a battery pack to get
it off the ground) and the envelope likely has holes now - so it might be a
quick up and down flight. Maybe it will pop due to the abrasions, maybe it
will just slowly leak. Your guess is as good as mine.
At any rate, it's flying now... Same call sign as always, KC8UCH-11.
73,
Robert
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Message: 8
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 23:02:39 -0400
From: "Robert Rochte" <rochte_at_gmail.com>
Subject: [aprssig] SDG-2 update
Might be our shortest mission ever - one packet received in the air and
*poof*, it's gone... Phooey, I'm tired and going to bed! :D
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Message: 9
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 04:33:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Borgstrom <bill_borgstrom_at_yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: [aprssig] APRS -- Chicago to Mackinac Island sailboat race
Hi Keith
After I got the Python script working I started working on Jason kg4wsv
Perl script. He had a few bugs but I got his script partially working.
It sends one packet and stops (you can't just sleep() in between packets
unless you close the socket).
Someone else is going to provide me with code to put the boat position
reports in a database. I just have to get the data every 20 minutes and
sent out a packet. The Orbcomm reports come in once an hour. The boats in
the race have the option of renting the equipment (about half do).
73 Bill
>Keith VE7GDH <ve7gdh_at_rac.ca> wrote:
>Bill N9TN wrote...
>
>>It was N9TN-1
>
>It looks like you had success...
>
>www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=N9TN-1&units=metric
>www.findu.com/cgi-bin/raw.cgi?call=N9TN-1&time=1
>
>and no errors showing, which is good...
>www.findu.com/cgi-bin/errorlist.cgi?call=N9TN-1&last=24
>
>Have you come up with an automated procedure to translate the
>Orbcomm data and gate it or is there still a manual process there?
>How often does the Orbcomm data get emailed to you? Does the
>owner of each sailboat have to purchase the equipment or is
>Orbcomm donating it for the race? I don't recall if this is on one
>vessel or if it's going to be on every sailboat in the race.
>
>Oops... I nearly replied direct to you instead of the list. I received
>two copies of your message. It looks like you CCd a reply direct to
>me as well as the list.
>
>73 es cul - Keith VE7GDH
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