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Subject: Re: D700 Replacement Due Out at Dayton 2004!
From: Richard Garcia <k4gps@bellsouth.net>
Date: 17 Feb 2004 18:14:53 -0500
X-Message-Number: 60
I waited long enough and came really close to telling the wife I wanted
one for Christmas. Almost did till' I took a close look at the bills.
Sure glad I did not, as you stated Dale hope some of the features were
fixed.
Rich
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 12:32, Dale Huguley wrote:
>Larry Zanella wrote:
>>I'm hearing it will have an all new, large, full color hi res TFT display,
>>plus Kenwood's D-Star implementation.
>
>I hope they fixed some of the "features" of the D700.
>
>73 de kg5qd Dale
--
Rich Garcia K4GPS Ex: KA2FXA and N2CZF
Echolink Node 12637 K4GPS-R 444.400 PL 110.9 Jupiter FL.
http://www.richgarcia.net
http://www.k4gps.net
http://www.qsl.net/k4gps/
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Subject: Re: KC8UCH-11 recovery update
From: "Scott Miller" <scott@opentrac.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:27:25 -0800
X-Message-Number: 61
>Has anyone ever thought about the liability of a baloon coming down ?
>Murphy states it will come down in a tree but if murphy is on vacation
>what would happen if it decided to come down on a major freeway with
>traffic going at 70+ mph. That really could screw up someone's
>windshield or worse.
Well, first of all the National Weather Service launches at least 92 a day
from the US alone, and I think worldwide it's about 900. I've never hear of
one causing damage.
Just for fun, I looked up some statistics on transportation in the US.
Assuming a generous 20-meter average width for a road, 1/122 of the US is
paved roads by area. For freeways it's about 1/1788. Unless my math is way
off... you can check it yourself. There are about 3.7 million kilometers of
paved roads in the US, and about 9.2 million square kilometers of land area.
The moral of the story is, if you want to avoid liability for damage...
Put a National Weather Service sticker on the payload. =]
Scott
N1VG
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Subject:
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?yhbusters_=A0Cell_phones_Vs_Gas_Stations_-_Liquid_Burn?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?ing?=
From: "Christensen, Eric" <CHRISTENSENE@MAIL.ECU.EDU>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 18:34:25 -0500
X-Message-Number: 62
Dang it!!! I was trying to fix my last message but the Lyris monster ate
it!!!
At STP it is the only component that will burn... For the liquid component
to burn it has to be heated or the pressure must be high... If you are
working in the temperatures or pressures at which gasoline liquid will burn
I don't think you would be worrying about talking on the telephone... :)
(STP = Standard Temperature and Pressure)
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Subject: Balloon recovery pics
From: "Rochte, Robert" <rrochte@gpacademy.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:00:05 -0500
X-Message-Number: 63
Jon, N1MZX, found the balloon today and was able to take a series of
pictures of the situation... No recovery yet, but we're getting there!
http://mail.gpacademy.org/~rochter/sd4/index.htm
73,
Robert
KC8UCH
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Robert Rochte
Director of Information Technology
The Grosse Pointe Academy
171 Lake Shore Road
Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236
Tel. +1 313-886-1221 x155
FAX +1 313-886-1418
www.gpacademy.org
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Subject: Path max altitude
From: "Scott Miller" <scott@3xf.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 18:00:43 -0800
X-Message-Number: 64
Ok, added a new config option to the OpenTracker:
M: Don't use path above: 4999 meters
Some sample output, with the tracker running off an NMEA generator:
aprs: fm N1VG-8 to APOT01 via RELAY WIDE ctl UI pid=F0(Text) len 29
0000 !3457.68N/12025.11W>/A=016400
aprs: fm N1VG-8 to OPNTRK via RELAY WIDE ctl UI pid=77(OPENTRAC) len 25
OpenTRAC decode (25 bytes):.
EID 0x10 len 11: Position: Lat 34.961433 Lon -120.418600 Alt 4999.000000
meters.
EID 0x503 len 2: 309 Kelvins.
EID 0x500 len 4: 12.882365 Volts.
aprs: fm N1VG-8 to APOT01 ctl UI pid=F0(Text) len 29
0000 !3457.68N/12025.11W>/A=016404
aprs: fm N1VG-8 to OPNTRK ctl UI pid=77(OPENTRAC) len 25
OpenTRAC decode (25 bytes):.
EID 0x10 len 11: Position: Lat 34.961433 Lon -120.418600 Alt 5000.000000
meters.
EID 0x503 len 2: 309 Kelvins.
EID 0x500 len 4: 12.882365 Volts.
Note that as soon as it goes above 4999 meters, the RELAY, WIDE path goes
away. I also discovered along the way that this is currently the ONLY way
to tell the config program not to use a path. Gotta fix that.
Scott
N1VG
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Subject: RE: Mythbusters Cell phones Vs Gas Stations
From: "Doug Younker" <dougy@ruraltel.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:26:54 -0600
X-Message-Number: 65
Who is to predict what is going to happen when? It is wise to follow all
reasonable precautions. I thought I was a goner when I watched the person
next to me reach down to remove the gas nozzle with a burning cigarette in
his hand. To my relief no boom!
Doug, N0LKK
dougy@ruraltel.net
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