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Subject: TExt messaging to Sprint Phones
From: Gonzales Andy <agonzales@arc.nasa.gov>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 13:52:36 -0700
X-Message-Number: 24
I have Verizon and don't know if Sprint is similar but this is what I can do:
From my computer I can send emails to my family's fleet of Verizon phones
"To:aaapppssss@vtext.com"
(the 10 digit phone number with no preceding "1")
followed by a short message
From Win/MacAPRS I can send emails to any legitimate address,
including the cell phone type,in the message window.
Put "email" in the "to" box
In the message box put
an address (i.e. KG6RWO@comcast.net or
408pppssss@vtext.com) followed by a space
followed by a short message
Assuming you can reach an IGate, The message will go through Sproul's
server and either show up at the appropriate computer or cell phone. There
will be a header that makes it look like the message came from back east.
In none of these cases can the cell phone user reply like he could for a
cell-to-cell text message (or even an Instant Messenger message to a cell
phone). Also, using a Kenwood D7 I Haven't been able to get blank
characters between words)
I used this technique on a trip this past summer to the Central Coast
region of CA. While watching a classic car parade, I would send text
messages back home so my wife could appreicate the event as well.
--
Andy Gonzales
KG6RWO
NASA / Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
Bldg. N-244, Rm. 240
MS 244-19
agonzales@arc.nasa.gov
650-604-0309
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Subject: Re: TExt messaging to Sprint Phones
From: "Scott Miller" <scott@opentrac.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 14:33:58 -0700
X-Message-Number: 25
>I used this technique on a trip this past summer to the Central Coast
>region of CA. While watching a classic car parade, I would send text
>messages back home so my wife could appreicate the event as well.
The text messages looked something like this:
_##_
__/|-|\_
//O\==/O\#
(Couldn't resist. My apologies to those using a proportional font.)
Scott
N1VG
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Subject: Re: varying the coverage of a RELAY
From: "Ev Tupis (W2EV)" <w2ev@arrl.net>
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 18:11:35 -0400
X-Message-Number: 26
Wes Johnston wrote:
>KC4PL and I were talking on the way to work this morning. What we need is
>to listen on a yagi, and TX on a 1/4 whip.
Could it be as simple as operating on low power? Even retuning the TX
portion of the transceiver if necessary.
Ev, W2EV
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Subject: Re: Zip-LAN question
From: Bob Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 19:37:39 -0400 (EDT)
X-Message-Number: 27
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Arte Booten wrote:
>When using APRSDos in Zip-LAN mode, do the slaves also have to be run-
>ning APRSDos, or can the other machines use another client (specifically,
>UI-View)? Mind you, those slaves will be for monitoring purposes only. No
>messaging capability would be needed. 73
A full description of the simple 2-wire zip cord to let any number of PC's
share a single TNC is described in:
http://web.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/APRS-docs/ZIP-LAN.TXT
Yes, ANY client program even if it did not implement ZipLan can be
attached to the 2 wire zip cord strung throughout the building or EOC and
it will receive APRS just fine from the single central TNC. Just plugs
into pin 2 and 5 of their serial port.
The only thing that a client needs to do to TRANSMIT on the ZIPLAN through
the centeral TNC is to send the packet in 3rd party format.
Unfortunately, I dont think WinAPRS or some of the others ever implemented
it.
My APRS kit-bag contains several DB-9's with the two clip leads coming out
of them so that I can connect ANY number of PC's wherever I may be to my
Kenwood D7 walkie talkie for example and have the entire system up on APRS
sharing the one radio...(with internal TNC)..
Now that everything you need except the PC is included in the HANDHELD D7,
people who do emergency support might want to re-look at the
come-as-you-are ZipLan concept. Carry a 100' roll of cheap small radio
shack speaker zip cord and some pins and you can wire up a whole room or
building full of PC's to the one HT...
de WB4APR, Bob
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