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Subject: Re: 7-Channel NWR-SAME Weatheradio with USB Interface
From: "Scott Miller" <scott@opentrac.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 10:41:55 -0700
X-Message-Number: 37
Looks like a Radio Shack part number.
http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&category%5Fname=&prodt
uc%5Fid=12%2D258&hp=search
Scott
N1VG
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Subject: Re: IGate Server List
From: "Spider" <spider@rivcom.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 10:44:06 -0700
X-Message-Number: 38
http://www.wa6oft.com/APRServe.txt is updated twice a day and includes the
FireNet servers as well as the APRS-IS servers.
Jim, WA6OFT
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Subject: GPS Watch -- does anyone know anything about it??
From: "Stephen H. Smith" <WA8LMF2@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 10:58:24 -0700
X-Message-Number: 39
A few days ago, I was in the sporting goods department of Target
(looking for tent stakes to tie down the ends of a portable HF dipole)
and noticed they were selling a wrist GPS from Garmin for about $150.
This device, packaged like a rather large clunky feature/sports watch,
really is a complete GPS that straps to your wrist. It's LCD display
reads directly in lat/log and has features for logging your course of
travel and calculating how many miles total you have walked/hiked, how
many calories you have burned, etc.
The back of the package says it will run for 10 hours on it's internal
rechargable lithium-ion battery. There seems to be no serial port to
get data out of the unit. I was pondering if it would be possible to
hack this device to add a serial output cable. If one could somehow get
serial data out of this device, it would be a way cool add-on for a TH-D7.
Anyone know anything more about this unit?
Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com
Home Page: http://wa8lmf.com
Ham Radio/Mobile SSTV page: http://members.aol.com/wa8lmf/ham
APRS Stuff
http://members.aol.com/wa8lmf/aprs
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Subject: Long distance wireless APRS
From: Carl Taylor <carltt@bellsouth.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:11:45 -0400
X-Message-Number: 40
I live a mile and a quarter from work....
I would like to network a computer at work so I don't have to buy another
TNC,etc...
I have not been into computer wireless till now...
Can I just use 2 beams or do I need a power amp,etc... I think I have a
line-of-sight path...
Could you also point me to a hardware source...???
Carl Taylor W9ZGU
Hollywood, FL, ( Near Ft. Lauderdale...)
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Subject: Re: Cross-country drive and APRS coverage report
From: "Robert Bruninga" <bruninga@usna.edu>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:32:04 -0400
X-Message-Number: 41
Did you use "voice-alert" at all?
or monitor 144.39 (CTCSS-100) for other voice alert users?
thanks
Bob
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Subject: Re: Long distance wireless APRS
From: "Stephen H. Smith" <WA8LMF2@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:47:46 -0700
X-Message-Number: 42
Carl Taylor wrote on 4/30/2004, 11:11 AM:
>I would like to network a computer at work so I don't have to buy another
>TNC,etc...
>
>I have not been into computer wireless till now...
>
>Can I just use 2 beams or do I need a power amp,etc... I think I have a
>line-of-sight path...
If you truly do have a line of sight path between the two ends, you
should be able to fire an 802.11 WiFi link between the two points --IF--
you use external high-gain antennas on the access points at each end.
You would have to set the wireless devices into the point-to-point mode
instead of the usual one-to-many access point mode.
Once these devices are configured in the point-to-point mode, they
essentially become the equivalent of a "cordless" CAT5 Ethernet cable
several miles long. They become completely transparent to the data
passing through; whatever goes in one end comes out the other,
regardless of IP adddresses on the computers involved, operating system
or application program.
I have shot a pair of LinkSys WAP11s over a distance of 5 miles using
24dBi paraflector antennas. These are open-grid antennas that are a
rectangular section of a parabolic dish about 2x3 feet with a dipole
driven element in their focus point. They sell for about $60 each and
clamp to standard 1 1/4" TV masting.
The access point devices run between $60-70 each for consumer-type
devices intended for interior use such as the LinkSys WAP11 up to
several hundred each for commercial-grade units in weatherproof outdoor
boxes. I have cracked open the Linksys units, removed the guts, and
repackaged them in weatherproof outdoor NEMA boxes that cost about $15
each. The LinkSys WAP11 (standalone access-point-only) has the option
to be set into the point-to-point mode; the much more feature-rich (and
less expensive!) combination router/4-port switch/access point devices
DO NOT have the required point-to-point link mode.
Note 1: These devices come with screwball reverse-sexed SMA or TNC
connectors (the screw-on plug has a female insert instead of the usual
male center pin. This was mandated by the FCC as a half-assed attempt
to discourage the use of external gain antennas on these devices,
instead of the usual "rubber duck" whips provided. It has failed
totally as outfits like the ones below offer a complete line of "R-TNC"
and "R-SMA" connectors and cable jumpers.
Note 2: By the time you buy two access points and two 24dBi antennas,
it will probably be cheaper to just buy another TNC -- though having an
ethernet link between the two locations could have other uses as well.
>Could you also point me to a hardware source...???
Fleeman Anderson & Bird
http://www.fab-corp.com/
HyperLink Technologies
http://www.hyperlinktech.com/index.html
Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com
Home Page: http://wa8lmf.com
Ham Radio/Mobile SSTV page: http://members.aol.com/wa8lmf/ham
APRS Stuff
http://members.aol.com/wa8lmf/aprs
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Subject: RE: Cross-country drive and APRS coverage report
From: "Larry Cerney" <lcerney@viawest.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:50:31 -0600
X-Message-Number: 43
Stephen,
Great story. And who says experimenting with technology is dead in Ham
radio?
73....
Larry
K0ANI
Denver, CO Igate
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Subject: Re: GPS Watch -- does anyone know anything about it??
From: db2fm <db2fm@jfsattv.de>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 20:57:25 +0200
X-Message-Number: 44
Hello Stephen,
the one wthout serial interface is the Forerunner 101 (runs on 2x AAA):
http://www.garmin.com/products/forerunner101/
There's also a Forerunner 201, which has the RS-232 (runs on LiIon):
http://www.garmin.com/products/forerunner201/
And there are the two ForeTrex units:
http://www.garmin.com/products/foretrex101/
http://www.garmin.com/products/foretrex201/
both with RS-232
73 de Juergen
--
DB2FM
Juergen Frank
mailto: db2fm@amsat.org
mailto: db2fm@darc.de
mailto: db2fm@jfsattv.de
ICQ: 144135020
AFU-PR: DB2FM@DB0LJ.#RPL.DEU.EU
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Subject: RE: IGate Server List
From: "AE5PL Lists" <HamLists@ametx.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 13:57:41 -0500
X-Message-Number: 45
http://www.aprs-is.net/aprsservers.htm
Some are and some aren't. The ones on this list have indicated in the
past that they are open to everyone.
73,
Pete Loveall AE5PL
pete@ae5pl.net
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Subject: Re: Cross-country drive and APRS coverage report
From: "Stephen H. Smith" <WA8LMF2@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:57:58 -0700
X-Message-Number: 46
Robert Bruninga wrote on 4/30/2004, 11:32 AM:
>Did you use "voice-alert" at all?
>or monitor 144.39 (CTCSS-100) for other voice alert users?
>thanks
>Bob
NO! I leave the left side of the D700 on carrier squelch (but 100 PL on
TX only) with the volume turned low (but not off) so that I can hear
APRS activity, even if it doesn't decode and display on my UI-View maps.
My beacon announces that I am monitoring 146.52. The right side of
the D700 stays on .52 about 95% of the time. I have a separate TM-742
tribander for 6-2-450 that I use for all other VHF/UHF voice operating.
If my UI-View map show a nearby mobile, I might try a quick call on
144.39 --IF-- I am out of the greater L.A. / southern Cal area. [ Here
in the hyper-congested constantly busy SoCal area, voice transmissions
on 144.39 would get you lynched immediately! ]
Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com
Home Page: http://wa8lmf.com
Ham Radio/Mobile SSTV page: http://members.aol.com/wa8lmf/ham
APRS Stuff
http://members.aol.com/wa8lmf/aprs
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