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TAPR APRS Special Interest Group Digest for Monday, March 08, 2004.
1. Re: APRS863
2. Re: [aprsspec] Combined Position and Weather Packet
3. Re: [aprsspec] Combined Position and Weather Packet
4. Help (With a KPC-3 and Mailbox issue?)
5. Re: [aprsspec] Combined Position and Weather Packet
6. PDA with 802.11x for APRS
7. Re: PDA with 802.11x for APRS
8. RE: PDA with 802.11x for APRS
9. RE: PDA with 802.11x for APRS
10. Re: Help (With a KPC-3 and Mailbox issue?)
11. Brent: APRS+SA 2.24 question
12. Hams receive awards!
13. Re: PDA with 802.11x for APRS
14. RE: APRS863
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Subject: Re: APRS863
From: "Robert Bruninga" <bruninga@usna.edu>
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 09:10:29 -0500
X-Message-Number: 1
Recent versions of APRSdos now remember the BACKUP file map, not the CONFIG
file map. The BACKUP file is saved every time you properly exit and select
"B" for the filename. Or whever you hit FILE-SAVE and select "B". But
the END key should always take you to the CONFIG file default... (I
hope)... de WB4APR, Bob
>>>Rod Fowler <k2adj@comcast.net> 3/7/04 2:30:41 AM >>>
Running APRS863..
Just getting back into APRS after an absence of several years and have run
into a problem, even though I saved everything and it made the proper
C:\config.apr file when I boot up the program it ignores some of the
information, that is, it loads a default map, "RUN" map of Maryland, not
the one I saved.. When I hit "1" for the world map, there is my house in
the right location.
Question: How can I get it to come up with the right map?
Rod
K2ADJ
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Subject: Re: [aprsspec] Combined Position and Weather Packet
From: "Robert Bruninga" <bruninga@usna.edu>
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 09:40:44 -0500
X-Message-Number: 2
>>>"Eric" asked:
>I would like to combine a position and weather report
>from an Ultimeter 2000 into one packet for transmission.
>I see positionless weather reports in the spec but none
>with a position.
Yes! Please use the "complete position/WX" format and not the separate
positionless weather and weatherless position reports that some clients
use. The two separate packets are an anathma in APRS as they reuire aprior
knowledge before either one of the packets have any value.
APRS was intended for every single packet to stand-alone and to contain all
necessary information in one packet at a time. The original combined
"position/WX" format was designed that way.
de WB4APR, Bob
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Subject: Re: [aprsspec] Combined Position and Weather Packet
From: "Daron J. Wilson" <daron@wilson.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 07:17:08 -0800
X-Message-Number: 3
Any idea if Byon's WXTrax conforms to that? We're working on adding one of
those at each KPC weather digi and doing weather that way so the Kenwoods
can decode it. It looks like at first glance that the Kenwood won't
display the weather data without valid position data as well.
Shouldn't we always be using the complete position/WX on a weather station?
>Yes! Please use the "complete position/WX" format and not the
>separate positionless weather and weatherless position
>reports that some clients use. The two separate packets
>are an anathma in APRS as they reuire aprior knowledge
>before either one of the packets have any value.
>
>APRS was intended for every single packet to stand-alone and
>to contain all necessary information in one packet at a time.
>The original combined "position/WX" format was designed that
>way.
>
>de WB4APR, Bob
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Subject: Help (With a KPC-3 and Mailbox issue?)
From: Mark Cheavens <mcheavens@usa.net>
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 09:23:32 -0600
X-Message-Number: 4
I need some help with a problem I am trying to remotely diagnose.
About a month ago my mountaintop Digi quit working. When it failed it
noticed that it was working fine one day, and then it died for almost
EXACTLY 24 hours. It then worked for about 24 more hours and then quit
working again.
Over the weekend someone went to the site and dug down to the cabinet (snow
depth was over the 6ft chain link fence and barbed wire). When they opened
the cabinet the message light was on. The TNC is still decoding packets,
but it is not sending beacons or digipeating anything.
So the question is: If the mailbox is full can and will this cause the
"failure" I am seeing?
It is a LONG trip up to the site in the winter and I plan on going next
week, but want to know what to take (my laptop to re-configure) or another
TNC and Radio. It is a LONG hike in winter!!! (Nice drive in the Summer!)
Mark Cheavens
KC5EVE
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Subject: Re: [aprsspec] Combined Position and Weather Packet
From: "Christensen, Eric" <CHRISTENSENE@MAIL.ECU.EDU>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 12:54:46 -0500
X-Message-Number: 5
And there it is... Right on page 65... Gees, and I have read the spec
before! Oh well, I'll go and change it at the site this week.
Thanks,
Eric KF4OTN
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Bruninga [mailto:bruninga@usna.edu]
>>>"Eric" asked:
>I would like to combine a position and weather report
>from an Ultimeter 2000 into one packet for transmission.
>I see positionless weather reports in the spec but none
>with a position.
Yes! Please use the "complete position/WX" format and not the separate
positionless weather and weatherless position reports that some clients
use. The two separate packets are an anathma in APRS as they reuire aprior
knowledge before either one of the packets have any value.
APRS was intended for every single packet to stand-alone and to contain all
necessary information in one packet at a time. The original combined
"position/WX" format was designed that way.
de WB4APR, Bob
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Subject: PDA with 802.11x for APRS
From: "Christensen, Eric" <CHRISTENSENE@MAIL.ECU.EDU>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 17:21:21 -0500
X-Message-Number: 6
Is anyone using, or can anyone point me in the proper direction, a PDA that
supports 802.11b or g wireless protocol that someone is using for APRS?
Where I live (East Carolina University) we have a lot of 802.11b wireless
access points (WAPs) and I would like to have a PDA that can access these
WAPs and maybe have an onboard GPS in the PDA for tracking purposes.
An all-in-one PDA with 802.11b and GPS and running one of the PDA APRS
packages would be fun! Anyone help with me with this?
Eric KF4OTN
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Subject: Re: PDA with 802.11x for APRS
From: Frank - KG6JVE <kg6jve@pasadena.net>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 14:28:07 -0800 (PST)
X-Message-Number: 7
An Ipaq and a 802.11x card will do it:
http://store.l-f-l.com/cgi-bin/cp-app.cgi?rrc=N&pg=prod&ref=BC307
I don't think this one has a CF slot:
http://www.garmin.com/products/iQue3600/index.jsp
If this has expansion, then you could run APRS over cellular data:
http://www.handspring.com/products/communicators/treo600_overview.jhtml;jsessiod
ni=1B5N4K0WQTSZDQFIAE1CFFGAVAATKIV0
Also:
http://www.pdasupport.com/NexianGPS.htm
Frank, KG6JVE
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Subject: RE: PDA with 802.11x for APRS
From: "Bogdan, Rick" <rbogdan@ursinus.edu>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:11:32 -0500
X-Message-Number: 8
Eric,
Try the Dell Axim X3 with WiFi and Pharos GPS. I hear it works OK. I'll let
u know in about 2-3 days when mine arrives.
Rick ka1udx
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Subject: RE: PDA with 802.11x for APRS
From: "Christensen, Eric" <CHRISTENSENE@MAIL.ECU.EDU>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:28:48 -0500
X-Message-Number: 9
Wow! A wireless GPS unit going to a wireless PDA! But the price tag is a
bit much!!! I'm still looking... I do like the PDA... It appears to be
exactly what I'm looking for at a decent price and from a company I like.
Thanks,
Eric KF4OTN
-----Original Message-----
From: Bogdan, Rick [mailto:rbogdan@ursinus.edu]
Eric,
Try the Dell Axim X3 with WiFi and Pharos GPS. I hear it works OK. I'll let
u know in about 2-3 days when mine arrives.
Rick ka1udx
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Subject: Re: Help (With a KPC-3 and Mailbox issue?)
From: "Mike Yetsko" <myetsko@insydesw.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:24:23 -0500
X-Message-Number: 10
>So the question is: If the mailbox is full can and will this cause the
>"failure" I am seeing?
>
>It is a LONG trip up to the site in the winter and I plan on going next
>week, but want to know what to take (my laptop to re-configure) or another
>TNC and Radio. It is a LONG hike in winter!!! (Nice drive in the Summer!)
Uh, if it were me, even if people were SURE that could cause the problem,
I'd swap it out with another one reconfigured. Then try to duplicate the
problem with the removed unit.
You really want to risk having to make another trip up there? Well,
unless it's skiable terrain and you're a skier. Then maybe you're
looking for an excuse!
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