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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Weather questions (Earl Needham)
2. RE: Weather questions (Curt Mills)
3. Announcing: New Products from RPC Electronics (Dayton Debuts)(Jason Rausch)
4. Re: Prius - Photos of Install Now On My Website (Floyd Rodgers)
5. Re: WTB - Digitraveler GPS (Dale Blanchard)
6. Re: Prius - Photos of Install Now On My Website (John Habbinga)
7. Re: Announcing: New Products from RPC Electronics (Dayton Debuts)
(Brian B. Riley)
8. Re: Weather questions (Stephen H. Smith)
9. Amateur spam ('Scott Miller')
10. RE: Amateur spam (Ken Cechura)
11. Re: Amateur spam (Jim Duncan)
12. Re: Amateur spam (Jim Duncan)
13. RE: Amateur spam (Jim)
14. Re: Amateur spam (Jim Duncan)
15. Re: DIN vs DB9 (Jason Winningham)
16. RE: DIN vs DB9 ('Scott Miller')
17. PL 100 on a base station (Ron)
18. Re: PL 100 on a base station (Jason Winningham)
19. Re: DIN vs DB9 (Brian B. Riley)
20. RE: KPC-9612 Loader (Bob Bruninga )
21. Re: DIN vs DB9 (Jason Winningham)
22. Re: Announcing: New Products from RPC Electronics (Dayton Debuts)
(Jason Rausch)
23. Re: PL 100 on a base station (Chris Rose)
24. Re: DIN vs DB9 (Kurt A. Freiberger)
25. Re: DIN vs DB9 (Jason Rausch)
26. Re: Announcing: New Products from RPC Electronics (Dayton Debuts)
(Amateur Radio WB8NUT)
27. Re: Announcing: New Products from RPC Electronics (Dayton Debuts)
(Jason Rausch)
28. Re: Weather questions (Earl Needham)
29. Re: Announcing: New Products from RPC Electronics (Dayton Debuts)
(Brian B. Riley)
30. Re: PL 100 on a base station (Bob Bruninga )
31. Voice Alert (was: PL 100 on a base station) (Jan T. Pharo)
32. Re: Voice Alert (was: PL 100 on a base station) (Wes Johnston, AI4PX)
33. Re: Voice Alert (Stephen H. Smith)
34. Re: PL 100 on a base station (Mike Heskett)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:33:49 -0600
From: Earl Needham <earl_needham_at_yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] Weather questions
At 10:18 AM 4/22/2007, Stephen H. Smith wrote:
>Are you referring to receiving the actual bulletins, or to
>downloading the shapefiles required to display them?
>If the latter, I was not aware that there was any way to download
>less than all of them. The current shapefile download links are
>on my website at:
>
>< http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/get_nws_shapefiles.htm >
I must be thinking of something else -- I remember at one point downloading
hundreds of files that took up many MB on the hard drive, just to get
weather watches and warnings. Maybe this is what was in use before we all
went to the shapefiles???
7 3
Earl
KD5XB -- Earl Needham
Clovis, New Mexico DM84jk
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cw_bugs
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 09:55:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Curt Mills <archer_at_eskimo.com>
Subject: RE: [aprssig] Weather questions
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, Earl Needham wrote:
>Am I reading this right? You no longer require HUNDREDS of files to
>show warnings, etc., all over the country on the map?
Not sure about the other APRS programs, but Xastir uses Shapefile maps from
NOAA, and there are only 6 or 8 files to download to get them all. Each
archive will explode into 3 or more files. As far as I know there have
never been hundreds of files to download in order to get the weather alerts
on your screen.
These files do represent thousands of different areas that can be lit up,
but there are hundreds of them in each Shapefile set.
--
Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com
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: 4
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:16:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Floyd Rodgers <kc5qbc_at_swbell.net>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] Prius - Photos of Install Now On My Website
General note of warning. UPS's are designed sometimes cheaply to use
battery capacity to limit the amount of time and heat that the transformer
can handle. When you upsize the battery, you may wind up melting the
transformer or a fire. My suggestion is get one that has a fan inside to
cool the transformer like some of the larger size more "data center" types.
Typically rack mountable uints will have this type of design.
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:03:46 -0700
From: Dale Blanchard <wa7ixk_at_earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] WTB - Digitraveler GPS
Jeff Kelly wrote:
>If anyone has a old Radio Shack Digitraveler GPS available I would
>like to purchase it.
>
>Email: jkelly_at_bellatlantic.net
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jeff
>KT2K
what are you willing to pay?
dale
Nevada
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 14:32:19 -0500
From: "John Habbinga" <kc5zrq_at_gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] Prius - Photos of Install Now On My Website
I'm guessing that your post was in response to the pics of my modified UPS.
The UPS is designed for backing up a server. There is another model, that
is just like this one, that is designed to add up to 10 additonal external
batteries. On that model the plug (with the yellow cable) that you see in
the third picture is used to connect the addtional batteries. Now on this
model the plug is used as a battery disconnect.
My greatest concern was having enough ventilation. After installing it
yesterday, I feel more comfortable that there is plenty of ventilation. I
am also concerned about the load. Right now I have it backing up
everything, but I may put the radios on their own 12 volt battery backup.
----- Original Message -----
>General note of warning. UPS's are designed sometimes cheaply to use battery
>capacity to limit the amount of time and heat that the transformer can
>handle. When you upsize the battery, you may wind up melting the transformer
>or a fire. My suggestion is get one that has a fan inside to cool the
>transformer like some of the larger size more "data center" types. Typically
>rack mountable uints will have this type of design.
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Message: 8
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 13:41:23 -0700
From: "Stephen H. Smith" <wa8lmf2_at_aol.com>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] Weather questions
Earl Needham wrote:
>At 10:18 AM 4/22/2007, Stephen H. Smith wrote:
>>Are you referring to receiving the actual bulletins, or to
>>downloading the shapefiles required to display them?
>>If the latter, I was not aware that there was any way to download
>>less than all of them. The current shapefile download links are
>>on my website at:
>>
>>< http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/get_nws_shapefiles.htm >
>
>I must be thinking of something else -- I remember at one
>point downloading hundreds of files that took up many MB on the hard
>drive, just to get weather watches and warnings. Maybe this is what
>was in use before we all went to the shapefiles???
The shapefiles do occupy about 40MB when unpacked, but you only download
a set of three ZIP file archives to cover the entire country. The links
I cited in my previous post go directly to the three files required.
The same shapefile set works with UIview, APRSplus, Win/MacAPRS and
Xastir.
--
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! World Digipeater Map
http://wa8lmf.net/APRSmaps
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 H" APRS http://wa8lmf.net/aprs
Symbols Set for UI-View,
UIpoint and APRSplus:
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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 14:22:54 -0700
From: "'Scott Miller'" <scott_at_opentrac.org>
Subject: [aprssig] Amateur spam
This isn't related to the recent HRO thing, but it reminded me of something
else...
Has everyone else gotten as many of these spam messages titled
'Radio-Amateurs+ART' as I have? It's been going on for months. The
messages are apparenty from ON4AW, always sent from a different domain but
most recently from mariaacke_at_misbuscadores.com. I've responded every
time asking for removal, and finally got a response - claiming that they've
had 175,000 positive responses and that I should just ignore the message or
remove my email from the internet (hah!) if I didn't want to see it again.
The message itself is in poorly-written English and links to Dutch-language
sites with some pictures of old rigs and text on art history. Certainly
nothing that warrants mass, unsolicited emails. I can only assume that
it's an attempt to drive traffic to the sites, so I won't include the URLs
here.
If everyone else is as fed up with this joker as I am, email them and let
them know!
73,
Scott
N1VG
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