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Subject: Re: KPC-9612
From: "Jimmy Floyd" <nq4u@bellsouth.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 12:05:14 -0600
X-Message-Number: 7
Thanks to all for the info on the 9612.
I think I have enough info to check the TNC out further.
Jimmy Floyd
NQ4U
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Subject: Re: APRS Symbols update - Hospital
From: "Spider" <spider@rivcom.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 11:24:20 -0700
X-Message-Number: 8
Stephen,
In Ui-View, there are very slight color variations for some of the symbols
that could conflict with a background color. However, they are close enough
that one can easily figure that out. We had trouble with the ICP symbol and
a white background...so the white part of the symbol is a few shades off
white.
Jim, WA6OFT
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Subject: Small transmitter and other ramblings....
From: Adi Linden <adil@adis.on.ca>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 13:58:36 -0600 (CST)
X-Message-Number: 9
I just came across the Lassen SQ GPS receiver. Does anyone here have
experience with one of them <http://www.trimble.com/lassensq.html>? I am
curious about where to buy and what the cost...
That got me thinking. I've seen several threads about small transmitters
and radios here off and on. Did anyone ever find a small compact
synthesized RF package that puts out a Watt or two? Something reasonable
priced and suitable for a small portable APRS setup?
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: Small transmitter and other ramblings....
From: "J. Lance Cotton" <joe@lightningflash.net>
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 14:10:45 -0600
X-Message-Number: 10
Adi Linden wrote:
>I just came across the Lassen SQ GPS receiver. Does anyone here have
>experience with one of them <http://www.trimble.com/lassensq.html>? I am
>curious about where to buy and what the cost...
Email their sales address. They gave me the name of a regional supplier and
said that it's about $xx in single quantities. That doesn't include the
antenna. I have several sets of the little connectors they use to get
data/power in/out of the device. It was just free samples, but if you end
up playing with the SQ (I didn't get one, just almost did), I can send them
to you.
73
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J. Lance Cotton, KJ5O
http://map.findu.com/kj5o-14
joe@lightningflash.net
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Subject: APRSDOS 861 drops unproto path <24hrs? What's up w/that?
From: "Kriss Alan Kliegle" <kliegle@rcn.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 15:50:2
X-Message-Number: 11
Been running the 'new' version of APRSDOS 861, after a long time, the path
"KA1GJU-3,NS1RA-1,WIDE2-2"is showing it's still current (hit the tab
button), but digi doesn't respond when xmited to. When going into terminal
mode using "Ops, Comm, Tnc" and hiting "U" for unproto, the TNC says APRS
"UNPROTO APR861", not my usual of "UNPROTO of APR861 VIA
KA1GJU-3,NS1RA-1,WIDE2-2".
Is there a bug in 861 or is it supposed to drop the path after hours of
unattended ops?
Kriss KA1GJU
KA1GJU-3 100% Solar Powered Digi
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Subject: Re: APRSDOS 861 drops unproto path <24hrs? What's up w/that?
From: "Robert Bruninga" <bruninga@usna.edu>
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 17:12:25 -0500
X-Message-Number: 12
>"Kriss Alan Kliegle" <kliegle@rcn.com>2/3/04 3:50:02 PM>
>Been running the 'new' version of APRSDOS 861, [but the PATH is screwed
>up...]
>Is there a bug in 861 or is it supposed to drop the path after hours of
>unattended ops?
YES, that is why there is version 863 posted only a week later. It fixes
the PATH bug..
Sorry. de WB4APR
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Subject: 9612, digipeating and kiss
From: "Scott Miller" <scott@opentrac.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 15:15:19 -0800
X-Message-Number: 13
I'm advising someone on setting on an IGate that's going to be located at a
repeater site. The IGate setup is no problem for me, but I'm not sure about
the digipeater setup. If they're using the same TNC (a 9612, I think), will
it do its digipeating job while in KISS mode? If I was building such a
system myself, I'd just have digi_ned do that part, but that may not be what
they're going for.
Scott
N1VG
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Subject: Re: APRS Symbols update
From: "Curt, WE7U" <archer@eskimo.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 14:57:06 -0800 (PST)
X-Message-Number: 14
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Bob Bruninga wrote:
>On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Stephen H. Smith wrote:
>
>>4) For the /z "Shelter", I have re-used the outline of a house (box
>>with pitched roof, commonly used for "Hospital" but with the red cross
>>removed). I have done it with a black outline and white fill that could
>>be overlaid legibly with a text letter. Any alternate suggestions?
>
>WHOA. The symobl for a Hospital is supposed to be a BLUE square with a
>white "H" in the middle of it. That is the same as the highway sign used
>everywhere to indicate hospital.
Define "everywhere". Is the white 'H' on a light blue background a U.S.
symbol or an international symbol? Seems to me that a house of some kind
with a cross on it means hospital in more places than the symbol we use on
signs around here.
In Xastir we currently have a white building with a red cross on it.
>SHELTER:
>
>I would recommend a red "HOUSE" symbol (a square house with a
>pitched roof over it) with room in the center for an overlay) as the
>SHELTER icon. Overlay characters are WHITE. If no overlay character
>is given then the overlay should default to "+".
That sounds a lot like our hospital symbol. Perhaps a lean-to with
space for an overlay character would suffice and get the "shelter"
point across?
>>I have filled the positions for all unassigned symbols with a red dot
>>with black crosshairs so that a usable position indicator WILL appear if
>>someone accidentally configures their system to transmit a not-yet
>>assigned symbol.
>
>I'd prefer that unasigned symbols use the circle with a slash through it
>which is the international symbol for "NOT"...
Ours looks like this:
NO
SYM
YET
Seems pretty descriptive.
--
Curt, WE7U archer at eskimo dot com
Arlington, WA, USA 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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Subject: Re: 9612, digipeating and kiss
From: "Stephen H. Smith" <WA8LMF2@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 15:39:14 -0800
X-Message-Number: 15
Scott Miller wrote on 2/3/2004, 3:15 PM:
>If they're using the same TNC (a 9612, I think), will
>it do its digipeating job while in KISS mode?
Not unless the program using KISS know how to digipeat; i.e a
full-function APRS client like UI-View or APRSplus that can both I-gate
and digipeat at the same time...
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Subject: Re: APRSDOS 861 drops unproto path
From: wa6ylb@theworks.com
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 16:39:08 -0800 (PST)
X-Message-Number: 16
Its an issue with APRSdos. I used to use the alternating path function
(which I believe was recently removed) and had to quit using it because
aprsdos would "loose" its path.
Try this: Set a path with the U command. Then do it again. Watch the bottom
of your screen where the paths are shown. Once in a while, the path isnt
there. Why? I suspect APRSdos remembers what it sees from the TNC. From my
experiments, it appears to be a timing issue where APRSdos sends a command
to the tnc to change or read the tnc, and doesnt get the data at the right
time (its been several years since I did this - my results are a bit fuzzy
in my mind). Since it doesnt see anything, it remembers "nothing". When I
looked at it last, I snooped the actual serial lines to see what APRSdos
was seeing/doing. Its not a tnc issue - I've tried MFJ1270, PACCOMM 5.0,
and KPC3, KPC3+ and KPC9612 and they all do this. It may be related to
APRSdos taking the tnc out of conversation mode to command mode where its
loosing it. If APRSdos did KISS, this never would be an issue.
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Subject: Location on FindU
From: EM Murphy <web8ck@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 18:31:26 -0800 (PST)
X-Message-Number: 17
My location on the FindU site shows me a couple miles from my true
coordinates. The following shows me near Fawn road but I live on 5th St in
downtown (village) Dresden.
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=KC8BEW
I have checked it other sites and programs and I am shown at my correct
location. Just curious as to the position change.
BTW
I don't have it as bad as KC8TDS. It shows him in the middle of the
Atlantic and I know He doesn't like boats or planes.
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=KC8TDS
Matthew, kc8bew
kc8bew@qsl.net
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