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Today's Topics:
1. WOW! Iowa is really with it on the voice repeater objects.
(Stephen H. Smith)
2. RE: Obsolete RELAY mobile Digipeaters? (Robert Bruninga)
3. RE: Portable IGate (Robert Bruninga)
4. RE: APRS Coverage in Key West (Robert Bruninga)
5. Re: APRS Coverage in Key West (Steve Dimse)
6. Re: WOW! Iowa is really with it on the voice repeater objects.
(Stephen H. Smith)
7. GPS18 LVC / PC (Andrew Rich)
8. Re: GPS18 LVC / PC (Keith VE7GDH)
9. Re: APRS Coverage in Key West (Bob Bruninga )
10. findU radar (Steve Dimse)
11. Re: findU radar (Ron Tonneson)
12. Re: findU radar (Steve Dimse)
13. RE: APRS Coverage in Key West (Richard Sharp, KQ4KX)
14. Re: APRS Coverage in Key West (Steve Dimse)
15. Help for course/speed/altitude etc HF APRS (Jack Chomley)
16. Decode software - 1200 baud ASCII (Andrew Rich)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:30:01 -0500
From: "Stephen H. Smith" <wa8lmf2_at_aol.com>
Subject: [aprssig] WOW! Iowa is really with it on the voice repeater objects.
On the road again traveling from Pasadena, Ca to East Lansing, MI to make
what I call the annual home maintainance and PC upgrade service call to my
mother and sister. Passing through Iowa, my mobile UIview laptop lit up
with this:
This is the western half of the state. The metro area at the left of the
screen is the Omaha, NE area and the metro area at the right is Des Moines,
IA. I screen capped this just moments ago, and uploaded it to my webserver
via the FREE WiFi hot spots provided at Iowa Interstate rest stops. (I am
also posting this message from the same hotspot.)
[The coolness of this ALMOST offsets the idiocy I monitored on 30M HF APRS
last night in eastern Colorado on I-76. A (so far) nameless W9 was
beaconing every minute on an ECHO digi path. Propagation was quite good on
30M last night -- I was hearing the original beacon and 2-3 digied versions
every time. And this was a HOME STATION !!!!! ]
--
Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com
EchoLink Node: 14400 [Think bottom of the 2M band]
Home Page: http://wa8lmf.com
NEW! JavAPRS Filter Port 14580 Guide
http://webs.lanset.com/wa8lmf/aprs/JAVaprsFilters.htm
UI-View Misc Notes and FAQ
http://webs.lanset.com/wa8lmf/aprs/UIview_Notes.htm
"APRS 101" Explanation of APRS Path Selection & Digipeating
http://webs.lanset.com/wa8lmf/DigiPaths
Updated "Rev G" APRS http://webs.lanset.com/wa8lmf/aprs
Symbols Set for UI-View,
UIpoint and APRSplus:
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:05:17 -0400
From: "Robert Bruninga" <bruninga_at_usna.edu>
Subject: RE: [aprssig] Obsolete RELAY mobile Digipeaters?
>>The DEFAULT UNIVERSAL setting for ALL D700's is
>>recommended to have UITRACE set to TEMP, 10.
>>This setting then permits any D700 at any time,
>>anywhere to be used as a TEMPn-N digi. This
>>is ideal for Field Day and for come-as-you-are
>>disaster response.
>
>Bob you lost me on that one. I have UITRACE on my
>D700 set to TEMP1-1. How does the TEMP, 10 work?
If you use UITRACE TRACE,30 then it supports TRACEn-N with dup suppression
under 30 seconds. That was the old way.
Most DIGIPeaters undere New-N are using "UITRACE WIDE,30". This sets them
up as TRACEABLE WIDEn-N digipeaters.
But we do not want every D700 to be a digi, so by making them all be
"UITRACE TEMP,10" then they become TEMPn-N digis and why not reduce the
dupe time to 10 seconds so that faster retry times can be used in these
emergency situations.
Setting the UITRACE parameter is setting the ROOT string. It then turns
this into a n-N decrementing digipeating system.
There is no need for the explicit TEMP1-1, since any such occurrence will
be digipeated by the UITRACE TEMPn-N function.
Hope that helps
Bob
WB4APR
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:14:25 -0400
From: "Robert Bruninga" <bruninga_at_usna.edu>
Subject: RE: [aprssig] Portable IGate
>I just equipped my camping trailer with a satellite internet
>connection... to provide IGate and Digi functionality.
>... What's the symbol for a portable IGate/New-N digi?
Hummh... Well not a "P" overlay since that is a PACCOM configured New-N
digi. I think I would just use the satellite Dish symbol. Most APRS
clients will quickly detect that it is an Igate and will so mark it.
Put in your position comment text any of the other brag details.
Bob
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:24:26 -0400
From: "Robert Bruninga" <bruninga_at_usna.edu>
Subject: RE: [aprssig] APRS Coverage in Key West
It sounds like the APRS activity has dried up down there and so there is
little support for fixing the reliability of the WX digis, and so even the
primary objective is not being well met. Maybe it is time for the WX folks
to upgrade the digis to New-N and this might grow back the APRS users and
grow back the WX network to meet their needs, and a larger support group to
keep it reliable? Just an observation... Bob
>The county has no interest in APRS in general, they
>simply use this for a very specific purpose, to get
>weather to the EOC in Marathon during hurricanes
>and other emergencies.... the path to Miami is unreliable.
>
>>But for disaster response, I would think that
>>upgrading to the higher network efficiency of the
>>New-N system could be justified for incoming first
>>responders with APRS....
>
>There simply is no interest in their part. I tried
>years ago (when there still were a dozen local users)
>without success. Now there are no local RF users,
>so there is even less reason.
>
>... it is not unusual to shut down for days. Look at
>any of the weather stations for a visual display of
>this (this is the Key West one):
>
>http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/wxpage.cgi?call=KQ4AZ-1&last=240
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:13:52 -0400
From: Steve Dimse <steve_at_dimse.com>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] APRS Coverage in Key West
On Apr 27, 2007, at 2:24 PM, Robert Bruninga wrote:
>It sounds like the APRS activity has dried up down there and so
>there is little support for fixing the reliability of the WX
>digis, and so even the primary objective is not being well met.
>Maybe it is time for the WX folks to upgrade the digis to New-N
>and this might grow back the APRS users and grow back the WX
>network to meet their needs, and a larger support group to keep
>it reliable? Just an observation... Bob
Maybe you don't understand, the weather stations are owned and maintained
by the county. And it IS meeting their primary objective, the weather data
from all the Keys station is being received very reliably at the EOC in
Marathon, in the middle of the Keys. It is not making it out to the
mainland well, but that is not their primary objective.
Steve K4HG
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:28:53 -0500
From: "Stephen H. Smith" <wa8lmf2_at_aol.com>
Subject: [aprssig] Re: WOW! Iowa is really with it on the voice repeater
objects.
wa8lmf2_at_aol.com wrote:
>On the road again traveling from Pasadena, Ca to East Lansing, MI to
>make what I call the annual home maintainance and PC upgrade service
>call to my mother and sister. . Passing through Iowa, my mobile
>UIview laptop lit up with this:
>
>< http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/iowa-objects.gif >
And here is another view as I got closer to Des Moines
--
Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com
EchoLink Node: 14400 [Think bottom of the 2M band]
Home Page: http://wa8lmf.com
NEW! JavAPRS Filter Port 14580 Guide
http://webs.lanset.com/wa8lmf/aprs/JAVaprsFilters.htm
UI-View Misc Notes and FAQ
http://webs.lanset.com/wa8lmf/aprs/UIview_Notes.htm
"APRS 101" Explanation of APRS Path Selection & Digipeating
http://webs.lanset.com/wa8lmf/DigiPaths
Updated "Rev G" APRS http://webs.lanset.com/wa8lmf/aprs
Symbols Set for UI-View,
UIpoint and APRSplus:
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 06:54:40 +1000
From: "Andrew Rich" <vk4tec_at_people.net.au>
Subject: [aprssig] GPS18 LVC / PC
Gudday
Inside a GPS 18
http://vk4tec.no-ip.org/kpc37%20018.jpg
http://vk4tec.no-ip.org/kpc37%20020.jpg
I bought a GPS18 PC and you can just cut the leads off - the PC version
adaptor takes 8-30 V down to 5 volts, effectively becoming a LVC.
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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:21:05 -0700
From: "Keith VE7GDH" <ve7gdh_at_rac.ca>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] GPS18 LVC / PC
Andrew VK4TEC wrote...
>Inside a GPS 18
>http://vk4tec.no-ip.org/kpc37%20018.jpg
>http://vk4tec.no-ip.org/kpc37%20020.jpg
I took pictures of the inside of one too, but that was after I connected it
to +12V.
73 es cul - Keith VE7GDH
--
"I may be lost, but I know exactly where I am!"
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