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Subject: Re: Still plunking along
From: "Christensen, Eric" <CHRISTENSENE@MAIL.ECU.EDU>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 12:03:49 -0500
X-Message-Number: 7
Keith,
Set your unproto path for WIDE2-2 or just plain WIDE. The first will get
you two hops away from your station and the second will just give you one.
Seeing you on findU with just one hop tells me that you won't have any
problem making it to the internet with just the one hop and being that this
is only a digipeater, people really don't need to see it for many miles
around. Probably a 30 minute beacon time for your btext would be
sufficient.
73s,
Eric KF4OTN
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Subject: Packet Status Register Seeks Writers
From: Stan Horzepa <stanzepa@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 14:22:58 -0500
X-Message-Number: 8
Work on the next issue of TAPR's Packet Status Register (PSR) will soon be
underway and your input to this quarterly newsletter is needed ASAP. Send
your articles, anecdotes, comments, news items, etc. to the PSR editor as
soon as you can to assure receipt by the January 24 deadline.
Thank you and 73,
Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
PSR Editor
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Subject: cellAPRS
From: Gonzales Andy <agonzales@arc.nasa.gov>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:36:10 -0800
X-Message-Number: 9
Anyone see those cell phones that have a GPS and can essentially do
APRS. CNN had a piece on them over the holidays. Someone at home
with their computer can track a cell phone user. A cell phone alone
can also display position reports.
--
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: California APRS use may be illegal?
From: Gonzales Andy <agonzales@arc.nasa.gov>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 12:11:39 -0800
X-Message-Number: 10
What is prohibited is the display of "entertainment" or "business
applications". No watching movies or working spreadsheets by a
passenger in the front seat. On my latest trip to San Luis Obispo, my
son drove while I worked APRS.
--
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: KPC3+ question
From: "Ken Cechura" <kcechura@umr.edu>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 16:31:16 -0600
X-Message-Number: 11
Ok, I know the "hidden" GPS port on the radio port exists, but has anyone
else attempted to power a GPS (like the rand mcnally units) from pin 7
(pseudo configured as power-in)... I need to find the schematic to make
sure this is kosier, but I *THINK* that one can connect:
J6- center and pin 2
J7- center and pin 1
And draw power from pin 7 and supply power via the power jack (the computer
portion plays nice in this configuration)
As opposed to
J6 & J7 - center and pin 2
For simply supplying power to the TNC via pin 7.
The reason I am even bringing this up is:
Based on another user's suggestion, I adopted an RJ12 interconnection
standard for my truck with the following connections:
Pin 1- TX data (from TNC to radio)
Pin 2- PTT
Pin 3- Ground
Pin 4- +V for GPS (I'll explain why in a minute)
Pin 5- GPS data to TNC
Pin 6- RX data (from radio to TNC)
The reason I put the GPS power on the cable is to minimize the cables and
reduce the rat's nest of cables in my truck since I mounted a Rand McNally
GPS (in) under the dashboard of my truck. I figgured this way I only have a
single cable runnign into the dash.
I only have a single cable interconnect from my radio (data jack on my new
FT1500) to the TNC and another from the TNC to the GPS... All I needed was
an RJ12 splitter and (rewired) DB9 to RJ12 network adaptor on the radio port
of the TNC.
Whether I connect a cable to the computer port or not is (or will be, when I
install and finalize the settings in the TNC) optional.
Ok, I've rambled on enough for now... Is there a problem with what I
proposed about drawing power off the DB9?
Thanks
Ken
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Subject: OpenTracker files released
From: "Scott Miller" <scott@opentrac.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 14:56:27 -0800
X-Message-Number: 12
The first batch of OpenTrackers has been sent out to the beta testers, and I
won't have any more boards available until I get some feedback on any needed
changes, but if you're interested in checking out the project now you can
get the files at http://n1vg.net/opentracker.
I might do a writeup of the project for the TAPR PSR. Either that, or I've
got to pay my TAPR dues. =]
Scott
N1VG
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Subject: Re: aprssig digest: January 04, 2004
From: "Tom Clarke" <fclarke@erols.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 19:13:50 -0500
X-Message-Number: 13
That granite dome would be a great place for a Digi, eh?
de Tom/W4OKW
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Subject: Voice Alert
From: Bob Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu>
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 09:52:38 -0500 (EST)
X-Message-Number: 2
Standing on top of Stone Mountain GA with a D7 and being 1000' or more
above average terrain, I heard not a single Voice Alert Mobile. (except
mine in the parking lot 1000' below.
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Subject: New APRSmax released
From: Bob Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 19:23:16 -0500 (EST)
X-Message-Number: 14
I just uploaded APRSx63.zip to TAPR:
It contains both the regular APRSdos and the MAX version both equal in
capability as version 863. MAX can hold 9 pages of Posits (over 300).
The normal version only holds a hundred or so... (your local LAN)...
New features:
1) Active IGates are circled on the map (didnt work in 862)
2) Fixed DIGIPATH restore into your TNC on each restart
3) Now remembers your POSIT on restart even if you were using D7 or D700
4) Beta test of new WAYPOINT for D7 and D700 mobiles or any mobile that
can change its ICON on the fly... See next message.
To have room for more stations, APRSmax gives up these routines:
- 3D map projection for balloons and aircraft
- Omni-Fade DF technique
- RResource plots and DX clluster plots
- Telemetry displays
- CAP Grid overlays
- Meteor Scatter mode, Space mode
- GPS Sky Plot
See next message on how the Mobile Waypoints work....
de WB4APR, Bob
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Subject: PIC-E question
From: "Scott Miller" <scott@opentrac.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 16:29:25 -0800
X-Message-Number: 15
What's the status of the PIC-E these days? Are a lot of people actively
using these things? What for? I'm mostly interested because, despite
looking like a TT3, the OpenTracker is really conceived as a reprogrammable
device more like the PIC-E than the TinyTrak. Only way cheaper, and with
more program space.
Scott
N1VG
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Subject: Beta test of Mobile Waypoint
From: Bob Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 19:37:19 -0500 (EST)
X-Message-Number: 16
In APRSdos 863 (just uploaded), I am beta testing a new mobile Waypoint
Symbol (ICON) experiment:
D7/700 WAYPOINTS: New in ver 863 is the WAYPOINT for a D7 or D700
mobile or any mobile that can change its ICON on the fly. It looks
like a red dot with an optional overlay character. Each station
can only have one outstanding Waypoint at a time. The WAYPOINT
icon has special processing:
1) The ICON is sent by the same MYCALL that wants to define a WPT
2) The sending station manually enters his POSIT for the WPT and TX's
3) Receiving clients save the WPT POSIT with the call MYCALL-WP
4) Clients also keep a 1-to-1 association between MYCALL and MYCALL-WP
5) So they can maintain a line from the MYCALL to the MYCALL-WP
6) A new WAYPOINT will update the location of an old one
7) If the WPT ICON has an OVERLAY numeral #, then it is MYCALL-W#
But we dont want anyone to have more than one WPT at a time!
To enter a WAYPOINT on the Kenwoods, simply:
* MENU to change ICON to "/" and table "\" (too bad it wont do overlays)
* MENU to turn GPS to NO GPS
* MENU to POSITION and enter the position for the WAYPOINT
* HIT BCON button a few times until you see MYPOSIT confirmation
* CHANGE ICON back to normal, and GPS to NMEA and resume normal ops.
- Note this can be simplified with a PM already set up with the WPT
Any mobile that can change its ICON and send a manual position different
from its GPS input can do this.
For now, APRS863 only can keep one waypoint link on the map at a time.
The Waypoint code in APRS863 is only involved in the receipt and display
of the ICON from mobiles. It needs no special stuff to send it since
theINPUT-MY-POSIT can be used at any time to send it.
This idea came to me while watching the almost 100 mobiles on my map last
weekend. Yes, they were moving, but who knows where! If one of
them was doing something special and had a line drawn between his
current position and his intended special destination, then that
would make him stand out among the crowd...
I dont want to see these on "every mobile", but it is a nice technique for
seeing where special stations are headed... To read about it, see my
README\MOBILE.TXT file.
de WB4APR@amsat.org, Bob
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