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Subject: DARPA Challenge!
From: Bob Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 19:24:37 -0500 (EST)
X-Message-Number: 16
AE5PL, et al,
DARPA is sponsoring an autonomouos Vehicle "event" with a $1M cash prize!
APRS affectionados might find this very challenging. See the web page.
www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge
The idea is to have these vehicles automomously find their way from
Southern California to Las Vegas totally on their own.
I think that APRS can be used as the "public" display of the event...
if a HAM radio operator is on each team and can put a tracker on it.
While I negotiate to try to get APRS allowed under the rules, is there
someone that would like to put up a "sample" web page showing the area
from Sandiego to Las Vegas "live" showing all moving vehicles? We can
point to that and show them what we can do...
Bob
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Subject: Re: Tracker/GPS but no TX insights?
From: "Ev Tupis (W2EV)" <w2ev@arrl.net>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 22:17:40 -0500
X-Message-Number: 17
Dick Stanich asked:
>
>What are your LTP 1-2 commands?
and Cap said:
>Right, with the Kantronics, you have to think of BLT/LT/LTP together.
Additional parameters shown below...in the mean time...
Is there any command that keeps the TNC from transmitting, even though the
buffers have information in them?
Is there anyone on the list ... using a KPC3+ w/ROM8.3 with GPS attached ...
that could send me their DISP list... *direct* (off sig)?
Ev, W2EV
Here are the parameters so far ...
KPC3+ with ROM 8.3
GPSHEAD 1 $GPGGA
GPSHEAD 2 $GPRMC
GPSPORT 4800 NORMAL NOCHECK
GPSINIT $PASHS,NME,PER,15$PASHS,NME,GGA,A,ON$PASHS,NME,RMC,A,ON$PASHS,SAV,Y
LT
1 $GPGGA,232100.00,4308.98898,N,07801.31922,W,1,05,02.8,+00191.19,M,-034.014,M,,
*44
2 $GPRMC,232100.00,A,4308.98898,N,07801.31922,W,000.0,000.0,090103,011.1,W*52
LTP
1 GPSHS VIA ID
2 GPSHS VIA ID
3 GPS
4 GPS
BLT
1 EVERY 00:05:00
2 EVERY 00:05:17
3 EVERY 00:00:00
4 EVERY 00:00:00
CD SOFTWARE
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Subject: Re: Tracker/GPS but no TX insights?
From: KC7ZRU - Tate <kc7zru@arrl.net>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 20:56:43 -0700
X-Message-Number: 18
Hi Ev,
We'll see if you get a DISP from anyone else - my KPC3+ ain't hooked to
a PC, but a HamHUD - bit tricklish to get a DISP without running a
serial cable out the window to the truck <g>.
But, there is an:
XMITOK { ON | OFF }
Page 267 of the PDF version of the manual found at:
http://www.kantronics.com/downloads.htm
Do note: If you're using the 'virtual' GPS port via the radio port
(available only in the V8.3), the GPSINIT command has no effect. It'll
only go 'out' the RS-232 port. The 'virtual' port is a read only port.
Also, if using the GPSPORT command to enable the 'virtual' GPS port,
then the INTERFACE command should NOT be set to GPS. If so, then the TNC
assumes the GPS is connected via the RS-232 port and not the 'radio'
port.
Also note: the PDF file on the Kantronics site is labeled as being V8.2
- NOT V8.3 - and does not include the V8.3 updates. I don't find the
V8.3 supplement on their site.
Anyone got one online? Maybe time to 'help' 'em out a bit.
Good luck!
73
--
"The Dungeon" online at http://go.to/kc7zru
Casper, WY | CARC Repeater
DN62tt | 146.940-
http://www.trib.com/~carc
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Subject: New Track Maps
From: "Brian Riley (maillist)" <n1bq_list@wulfden.org>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 23:09:26 -0500
X-Message-Number: 19
I have been kind of busy lately and have had no time to get any more maps up
for the tracking page. I have done some experimenting and found ways to
knock the size of the maps down (many of the ones there are 140-230K which
is abit tedious on a dialup) to 50-70K.
I had a couple of urgent requests so I took some time out today and knocked
out four maps of metropolitan areas
(1) NNJ(east) - NYC - LI (to Nassau County)
(2) Baltimore-Washington DC
(3) Newark, DE - Philadelphia, PA - Trenton, NJ
(4) the 'greater' Springfield, MA area
Thses maps have been added to the track map menus for their appropriate
region as well as to the large pulldown for the APRS Activity Locator on the
Search page.
I have an 11 day break coming up and plan to spend a day on maps and other
web things, now would be the time to put in requests. I have saved all the
requests I have received up to this point.
<http://www.wulfden.org/APRSQuery.shtml>
<http://www.wulfden.org/APRSTracking.shtml>
cheers ... 73 de brian, n1bq
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