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TAPR APRS Special Interest Group Digest for Friday, February 21, 2003.
1. Re: 222-MHz Business Band Retunes?
2. Re: Tracker/GPS but no TX insights?
3. re: Any NMO GPS antennas yet ?
4. Ui-Digi and a WM918 weather station new setup to try out
5. Mobile APRS Setup question
6. qAS construct question
7. RE: qAS construct question
8. radio to tnc
9. Re: Mobile APRS Setup question
10. PCSAT BBS
11. Rino and Tiny Trak
12. FM Satellites for week beginning 21 Feb
13. Re: Rino and Tiny Trak
14. OnStar?
15. Re: Rino and Tiny Trak
16. Re: Rino and Tiny Trak
17. Re: Rino and Tiny Trak
18. Re: Rino and Tiny Trak
19. Re: Rino and Tiny Trak
20. Re: Rino and Tiny Trak
21. RE: OnStar?
<LYR27917-121427-2003.02.21-16.25.46--khufford#comcast.net@lists.tapr.org>
22. Re: Rino and Tiny Trak
23. Re: Rino and Tiny Trak
24. Weather Station & APRS
25. Re: Rino and Tiny Trak
26. RDF Question
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Subject: Re: 222-MHz Business Band Retunes?
From: "Ev Tupis (W2EV)" <w2ev@arrl.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 06:11:03 -0500
X-Message-Number: 1
Thanks to Rich, Jim, Mark, John and Eric for some very useful pieces of
information on the topic of finding business band transceivers to convert
for use on 222-MHz! It looks like this part of the spectrum is fairly
devoid of useful equipment for all sorts of services...not just Amateur
radio.
With the sudden influx of interest in BEACONet.25 CU2QSO operation, I was
hoping to nudge folks over to using 223.78 MHz (as opposed to yet another
occupant of 2-meters), but being faced with the dirth of available
equipment it looks like that won't happen anytime soon.
Again, thanks to all!
Warm regards,
Ev
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Subject: Re: Tracker/GPS but no TX insights?
From: "Ev Tupis (W2EV)" <w2ev@arrl.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 06:25:31 -0500
X-Message-Number: 2
Special kudos to Cap, Tate, Dick, Byron and Terry for the help with my
KPC3plus tracker that didn't seem to want to TX. The moment that I sent
out the eMail requesting help, I was smacked with another project that took
family-priority and I haven't had a chance to revisit things.
That changes tonight.
You guys are the greatest!
Ev, W2EV
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Subject: Ui-Digi and a WM918 weather station new setup to try out
From: "Tony Hunt" <wavetel@iname.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 23:32:28 +1030
X-Message-Number: 4
From the Uidigi SIG list..
>Ok well a week or so back we floated the idea on here for connecting a WM918
>weather station up to a Ui-digi.. Its still rather Beta-ish but seems to
>work ok.. Some folks to test it out is what it really needs..
>
>It will interface with a TNC fitted with Ui-Digi firmware.
>You will need the ability to program some firmware into a PIC 16f84 .. This
>is the same type of PIC used in the Tinytrak MK-1
>
>The WM918 wx station was also marketed as a WM200 or Radio Shack weather
>station as far as I beleive.. It has had a fair distribution around the
>world and there seems to be alot of info available on it all..
>
>For us in VK land its pretty dificult to test this setup in some of the more
>extreem weather conditions although we have managed to test it above 100 deg
>F..
>
>Goto this WEB page and follow the link have a look.. Happy building..
>http://www.qsl.net/vk5ex/
>
>Thanks to Andrew VK5EX for his efforts on this setup so far..
>
>Tony Hunt VK5AH
Thought some may be interested in this.. Tony VK5AH
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Subject: Mobile APRS Setup question
From: "Jacob Tennant" <k8jwt@ntelos.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:17:36 -0500
X-Message-Number: 5
I am in the process of putting together a mobile APRS setup for my vehicle
and have a small question or two...
I am installing a system for use both with and without a laptop computer and
was going to use one of the KPC-3 model TNC's and was wondering that if I
use it with WinAPRS and a HSP adapter, if the laptop IS NOT present will the
HSP adapter still feed GPS data to the TNC?
Was hoping to make the setup somewhat covert except for the laptop.
Jacob Tennant K8JWT
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Subject: qAS construct question
From: "Ramon F. Kolb" <ramon@ieee.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:22:12 -0500
X-Message-Number: 6
Q-construct gurus, I have a question:
Is the following valid?
PA3EUG-9>T2RS3Y,W1YK*,WIDE3-2,W1GTT,qAS:`c\wm{?>/"4(}
Shouldn't this be something like:
PA3EUG-9,T2RR8V,W1KRU-2*,WIDE3-3,qAS,N1UEC:`c\]lSx>/"40}
In other words: is having a "first entered the APRS-IS at" callsign
obligatory when using the qAS construct?
The packets I quoted are from FINDU, I have been downloading a few
history streams to be able to make a coverage map of my local area
Thanks, 73s,
--Ramon
Ramon F. Kolb, W1/PA3EUG, Boston, MA, USA [FN42KI]
ICQ:77117744; MSNMGR:legalalien30@hotmail.com
http://pa3eug.webhop.org
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Subject: RE: qAS construct question
From: "AE5PL Lists" <HamLists@ametx.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:55:22 -0600
X-Message-Number: 7
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ramon F. Kolb [mailto:ramon@ieee.org]
>Posted At: Friday, February 21, 2003 11:24 AM
>Subject: [aprssig] qAS construct question
>
>Is the following valid?
>PA3EUG-9>T2RS3Y,W1YK*,WIDE3-2,W1GTT,qAS:`c\wm{?>/"4(}
No.
>Shouldn't this be something like:
>PA3EUG-9,T2RR8V,W1KRU-2*,WIDE3-3,qAS,N1UEC:`c\]lSx>/"40}
Yes.
It appears that a version of server software (unidentified at this time)
is "mangling" ,I constructs. What appears to be happening in the first
packet is that W1GTT gated your packet to APRS-IS using the IGATE,I
construct (W1GTT,I). The receiving q-enabled server is simply changing
the I to qAS instead of translating the construct to qAR,W1GTT like it
should.
I ask that anyone else experiencing this problem email their IGate
server list to me directly so I can see if there is some sort of
commonality. If I identify a particular common server, I will notify
the sysop (and server software author) off-list so we can nicely correct
the problem.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I did a quick lookup on my
database and saw very few entries like this so it thankfully seems to be
a very isolated server.
73,
Pete Loveall AE5PL
pete@ae5pl.net
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Subject: radio to tnc
From: "Bob B" <n1uan@qsl.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:27:0
X-Message-Number: 8
Hi
i am trying to get an HTX 252 and an MFJ 1270C set up but having
some trouble with the pinout needed for this radio to the tnc
cany one that has any info on how to wired this up please
if you can send it along as we would like to get this going on aprs
thanks in advance
Bob N1UAN
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Subject: Re: Mobile APRS Setup question
From: "Curt Mills, WE7U" <hacker@tc.fluke.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 11:54:41 -0800 (PST)
X-Message-Number: 9
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Jacob Tennant wrote:
>I am installing a system for use both with and without a laptop computer and
>was going to use one of the KPC-3 model TNC's and was wondering that if I
>use it with WinAPRS and a HSP adapter, if the laptop IS NOT present will the
>HSP adapter still feed GPS data to the TNC?
>
>Was hoping to make the setup somewhat covert except for the laptop.
Get a KPC-3+ (the '+' is important) with version 8.3 or later of
firmware (is there a "later"?).
This gives you another serial port, done via software, that you can
use to input the GPS data.
With that setup, you have to make a custom Y-cable to one of the
connectors (the radio connector is it?) so that you can feed the GPS
data into this new pin.
When you get that set up properly, you can plug the laptop in on the
other connector (or not) and it will still work.
I'm sure others will help with more specific info on pinouts and
what commands to use to set this up. It's a very cool feature
though.
Skip HSP adapters unless it's your only way out. They are less than
optimal, but are better than not having it work at all. The above
setup with a KPC-3+ will avoid having to use HSP adapters.
--
Curt Mills, WE7U hacker_NO_SPAM_@tc.fluke.com
Senior Methods Engineer/SysAdmin
"Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math!"
"Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates!" -- WE7U
"The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!"
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