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TAPR APRS Special Interest Group Digest for Sunday, January 25, 2004.
1. Re: APRS Speech
2. etrex power
3. APRSdos bug NOT
4. UIVIEW and Psychic Phenomenah
5. Re: N5QIA
6. Re: N5QIA
7. Re: APRS Icon help - Findu - PcSAT
8. aprsd and digined
9. Re: APRS Icon help - Findu - PcSAT
10. RE: aprsd and digined
11. Re: APRS Icon help - Findu - PcSAT
12. Re: APRS Icon help - Findu - PcSAT
13. Re: APRS Icon help - Findu - PcSAT
14. Re: Vehicle Telemetry
15. Re: APRS Icon help - Findu - PcSAT
16. Re: APRS Speech
17. Re: APRS Icon help - Findu - PcSAT
18. Re: APRS Icon help - Findu - PcSAT
19. D7A Sticking out of This?
20. Re: etrex power
21. Re: etrex power
22. RE: D7A Sticking out of This?
23. RE: D7A Sticking out of This?
24. can't access findu.com mySQL, ERROR 1030
25. Re: APRS Icon help - Findu - PcSAT
26. Re: can't access findu.com mySQL, ERROR 1030
27. Re: APRS Icon help - Findu - PcSAT
28. aprsworld.net update
29. Re: aprsworld.net update
30. Re: aprsworld.net update
31. UNIDEN MYSTIC
32. Re: etrex power
33. eTrex power
34. Re: etrex power
35. Re: etrex power
36. Re: etrex power
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Subject: Re: APRS Speech
From: Bob Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 08:49:42 -0500 (EST)
X-Message-Number: 1
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Bob Bruninga wrote:
>The current definition of SPEECH in APRS is any word preceeded by a % in a
>message. The Kenwood D700 will speak such messages if it has the Voice
>Synthesizer module. But it only speaks words it recognizes. Otherwise it
>spells them...
ARGH, it was late... and I was excited.
No, the kenwood does not read the text. It uses a lookup table. You
have to send it %XX and it will speak its XX'th word or letter.. or
something like that.
Bob
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Subject: etrex power
From: Robert W Burton <kd4ydc@juno.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 08:54:16 -0500
X-Message-Number: 2
Wanting to power my etrex off of the serial port on the laptop. Seems to
be about 8.5 to 9 volts. Manual said that power cords drop voltage down
to 3 volts. I know the older models are more forgiving. Anyone doing
this? Can I just hack off the Garmin supplied cable....and the extra
power wire will be in there ;-)
Thanks,
Robert
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Subject: APRSdos bug NOT
From: Bob Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 09:13:27 -0500 (EST)
X-Message-Number: 3
FOrget the bug.
It was operator error.
I was using a THD7 and it boots up with its own callsign which was
different than my PC's callsign. So when I uplinked the WRECK object, it
actually went out under the TNC's call.
Thus when it came back, it was not my PC's callsign and so it "replaced"
my uplinnked object with the other one and canceled mine.
CAUTION! This is not the first time in the last 12 years this has
happened. It can happen to you too... so always make sure your TNC is
using the same call as your PC... The APRS software should do this for
you, but sometimes they get out of sync. Especially if you just grab a D7
and plug it into a running PC...
de WB4APR@amsat.org, Bob
PCsat WEB page http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/pcsat.html
ISS-APRS FAQ: http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/iss-faq.html
CUBESAT Designs http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/cubesat.html
APRS LIVE pages http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/aprs.html
APRS SATELLITES http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/astars.html
MIM/Mic-E/Mic-Lite http://ssdl.stanford.edu/mims/
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Subject: UIVIEW and Psychic Phenomenah
From: "Phil Sanders" <nika01@rocketmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 9:14:39
X-Message-Number: 4
All I can say is this , it is mighty strange that for what appears to be
best software package out there for APRS, e.g. UIVIEW , that one has to be
psychic to find it on the TAPR web site.
It is painfully easy to find all other software packages.
Just exactly why cant UIVIEW get its own entry next to APRSPLUS and WINAPRS ?
Phil Sanders, AB8EO
Radio Enthusiast
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Subject: Re: N5QIA
From: Earl Needham <needhame1@yucca.net>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 08:43:11 -0700
X-Message-Number: 5
At 07:19 AM 1/24/2004, I wrote:
> Is N5QIA on this list? Or, alternatively, does anybody know how
>to contact that person? The email given in weather packets from this
>station does not work.
>
> I'm getting MANY packets from this station...maybe 60 an hour or
>more.
Am I the only one that thinks this is excessive?
Hours 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00
N5QIA-5 111 135 112 108 104
For the period from 1700 yesterday until 0835 today (both times
Mountain time) I received 1556 packets from this station. Not bad for
being 280 miles away...
Earl
Earl Needham, KD5XB, Clovis, New Mexico DM84jk
KD5XB-2>APW251,PCSAT-1%:=3425.83N/10313.55W-PHG7150/WinAPRS 2.5.1
-EARL_CLOVIS -251-<630>
SETI@Home: 11297WU/7.33yrs
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Subject: Re: N5QIA
From: "Christensen, Eric" <CHRISTENSENE@MAIL.ECU.EDU>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 10:51:22 -0500
X-Message-Number: 6
I would say that is slightly excessive... :)
Found this information on the guy:
Kenny Clouse N5QIA P.O. Box 554 Alpine, TX 79831 (432)837-2600
No email address listed.
73s,
Eric KF4OTN
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Subject: Re: APRS Icon help - Findu - PcSAT
From: EM Murphy <web8ck@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 08:15:01 -0800 (PST)
X-Message-Number: 7
Thank you for all your explanations. I think Steve has done a good job
with the FindU site. If everyone agreed to the same set of icons for their
programs/sites there might be more compatability. I just wanted to make
sure I was sending a correct format.
=====
Matthew, kc8bew
kc8bew@qsl.net
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Subject: aprsd and digined
From: Adi Linden <adil@adis.on.ca>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 10:28:16 -0600 (CST)
X-Message-Number: 8
Hi,
I am getting ready to fire up aprs on my Linux repeater PC. This time I
thought about not only running aprsd but to also have digi capabilities.
Does anyone have a document describing how to get digined and aprsd
palying together on Linux, maybe even with a Baycom modem as a bonus?
Thanks,
Adi
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Adi Linden | va3adi | va3adi@adis.ca | http://adis.ca
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IRLP Node 2590 in Sioux Lookout, Ontario
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Subject: Re: APRS Icon help - Findu - PcSAT
From: Steve Dimse <k4hg@tapr.org>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 11:37:34 -0500
X-Message-Number: 9
On 1/25/04 at 8:15 AM EM Murphy <web8ck@yahoo.com> sent:
>Thank you for all your explanations. I think Steve
>has done a good job with the FindU site. If everyone
>agreed to the same set of icons for their
>programs/sites there might be more compatability. I
>just wanted to make sure I was sending a correct format.
Everyone has agreed to the same set of icons, those in the spec. There a
few changes as documented on Bobs web site, and often a lively discussion
about changes and additions, but the set is as specified in the spec.
The problem is two-fold. First, Bob does not like the term icon, because
that derives from the graphic GUI world which dosAPRS is not a part of, he
uses icons of a single color, which changes to indicate other information.
The second problem is simple a matter of grunt work. Most of the other APRS
clients use icon sets derived from the Sproul's set first released with
MacAPRS many years ago. I used it with permission in javAPRS, where the
entire set is encoded into single GIFs for primary and alternate sets.
Others have used the javAPRS as a starting point. findU uses a set of GIFs
given me by Brent, which I believe started out from the Sprouls, but I
could be wrong.
So over the years, especially in the dark time before standardization,
little errors crept into these ison sets and were never fixed. Icon editing
is a painful thing, especially when you have a hundred plus to edit.
So what is needed is someone with some basic graphic skills to take the
icon sets that exist, and clean them up to match the spec, and release sets
in different sizes and formats. That would be a huge contribution to the
APRS community...
Steve K4HG
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Subject: RE: aprsd and digined
From: "Scott Miller" <scott@3xf.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 08:40:10 -0800
X-Message-Number: 10
Check out John Ackermann's page at http://www.febo.com/packet/linux-ax25/.
I haven't run digi_ned myself, but it shouldn't be too hard. That's the
nice part about packet on Linux.. with the AX.25 stack, you don't need to
worry about splitting out serial ports and stuff.
One of the projects I've got on the back burner is a prepackaged load for a
digi_ned installation on a Soekris Engineering single-board PC with 128 megs
of flash, and maybe a Baycom-style modem that'll fit in the case. The idea
is to get rid of some of these Kantronics digis and replace them with
something smarter.
Scott
N1VG
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