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Subject: Re: findu.com
From: "Richard Amirault" <ramirault@erols.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 21:55:59 -0500
X-Message-Number: 44
Could be the particular data string you're sending to the radio. It's been
a while so I don't remember exactly, but one has altitude info, where an
other has course and speed instead.
Richard Amirault N1JDU Boston,
MA, USA
www.erols.com/ramirault "Go Fly A Kite"
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Subject: Re: More APRS weather
From: "Charles H. Rahe, II" <crahe@infi.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 22:02:44 -0500
X-Message-Number: 45
Pleasure boats have a federal documentation number and/or a state
registration number. They no longer are required to have an FCC call
sign for non international vhf operation.
Charlie, AI3L
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Subject: Re: once upon a stolen car?
From: "Mark Fellhauer" <sparkfel@qwest.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 22:15:17 -0600
X-Message-Number: 46
At 06:30 PM 2/26/2003, hasan schiers wrote:
>That would be Dave Kaplan WB0WNX (our neighbor to the west) I don't know the
>date.
I believe the date was on or around 4/7/2002...
Regards,
Mark
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Subject: Re: TXD (Final answer?)
From: Guy Story <gstory@tigerbyte.com>
Date: 26 Feb 2003 22:27:27 -0600
X-Message-Number: 47
Bob, I have personally played with the KPC3 and 3+ with several Alinco
rigs and Yaesu rigs. All of them have been built in the last 10 years.
I have seen an issue with txd being less than 150 milliseconds. I
typically run 180. I have not tried to tie the less than 150 ms issue
to the tx rig or rx rig. I have read that if the txd is to short that
the rx side may become a issue. I run open squelch on all Kantronics
based trackers and digis I am responsable for.
73
Guy Story, KC5GOI
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Subject: [Fwd: Stolen Vehicle-RECOVERED using APRS]
From: Claude Head <k5dtn@swbell.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 22:56:39 -0600
X-Message-Number: 48
Here is the message being discussed and sought.
73, Claude
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Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 09:21:18 -0500
From: Dave Kaplan <dkaplan@steffeninc.com>
Subject: [aprssig] Stolen Vehicle-RECOVERED using APRS
Sender: bounce-aprssig-9746@lists.tapr.org
X-Sender: dkaplan@pop3.spa.norton.antivirus
To: TAPR APRS Special Interest Group <aprssig@lists.tapr.org>
Here is the update I promised. On Monday, April 8th, I returned to the
Sioux City airport after being gone for 4 days. I fly a Turbine Commander
that is based at a local Fixed Based Operator (FBO). The usual procedure is
for me to drive the Suburban to the airplane to load it, give the keys to
the FBO employees who drive it away from the aircraft, wash it and park it
outside the secure area until I return. When I do return, I radio the FBO
when I'm about 30 minutes out. They will bring the car inside the secure
area and have it pre-heated or pre-cooled as the season demands. Usually
they pull it up right beside the aircraft while I am shutting down.
This procedure was followed, to a point. As I left on April 5th I watched
the FBO staff washing the Suburban as I taxied out. When I arrived back on
the 8th I was surprised that the car was not brought out to meet me. I was
further surprised when they told me they had no idea where the car was and
that the keys were missing from where they stored them.
After arranging alternate transportation for my passenger the FBO staff and
I search the airport just in case their staff had "borrowed" the Suburban
to run and errand. Meanwhile the FBO called all the off duty staff to see
if they had any knowledge of the missing Suburban. One employee report at,
at about 0100 hours that morning he had heard a vehicle with a loud muffler
in the FBO parking lot. As he walked out he saw two vehicles driving away.
Once of them could have been my Suburban but one was definitely a van with
a loud muffler. All other calls as well as the search were futile and the
Sioux City Police were called.
Let me give you a few details about my vehicle. The Suburban was less than
4 months old. It had less than 5,000 miles on it. It was equipped with
siren and 6 concealed strobe lights in the grill. It had not only my D700,
but also a Tait2020 radio that was programmed with Marine (for US Coast
Guard Aux. support), Civil Air Patrol and local law enforcement
frequencies. My FEMA-USAR (Urban Search and Rescue) gear worth over $2,500
dollars, US Coast Guard Aux. Mustang survival suit and fire-fighting gear
were all in the back as well as tool kits, and other miscellaneous
supplies. When I put a pen to it the total came to over $6,000 plus $1,000
for the two radios.
After filing my report with the police, and arranging alternate
transportation, I started for home. I was upset and mad. I stopped at a
friends business to commiserate with him. Doug (KA0VHV) asked me if I had
tried looking at FINDU to see if the tracker had been activated. I was
dumbfounded. I hadn't even thought of it. We checked FUNDU you and, sure
enough, there was one position report 13 hours old just South of the
airport. We printed a copy of the map and called the Sioux City Police to
report what we had found. The same officer who took the original report was
there in minutes to look at the report. Since the position was outside the
city limits she requested a deputy to respond to that location.
Doug and I then drove to the location to see what we could see. It was a
gravel road that was right next to a boat ramp that accessed the Missouri
River. Since the FINDU report had shown the vehicle was stationary when the
report was sent we figured the vehicle was being stripped. We looked for
discarded items in the ditch and farmers fields along but found nothing.
Realizing that it was past dinnertime I called my wife to tell her why I
was late (she already knew about the theft). I told her where we were and
why we were there. Two minutes later I received an excited phone call from
her. She had been speaking with her brother (a deputy sheriff) and told him
where we were. He got very excited and told her he had heard a license
plate being run by a Conservation officer the prior night at approximately
the same time but at the exactly the same place the FINDU report put my
vehicle. Better than that, the 10-28 report came back to a known criminal
that had just been released on parole and his vehicle had been involved in
an accident resulting in a damaged muffler.
Since the vehicle report was only 100 yards from the river our first
thought was it had been dumped in the river. The next day the Coast Guard
Aux. started a search just off the boat ramp. The search was unsuccessful
and plans to return with a sonar unit the next day were made.
Those plans were cancelled when a report that my Suburban had been used in
a burglary 30 miles away was received. A witness to the burglary gave a
description that matched the description of the van owner.
The search was on. It was now Wednesday. My brother-in-law (the deputy)
spent his day searching the known hiding spots in the county as well as
looking for the suspect. At 1400 hours his shift was over. At 1405 hours
another deputy spotted the suspects vehicle with three occupants washing
it. Suddenly there were three deputies and 5 city officers performing a
"felony stop" on the suspects. I hear it was a thing a beauty.
The funny part - it was only four blocks away from my brother-in-laws house
and he had spent the day searching 100's of square miles for these guys.
So, three meth-head dirtbags in jail. There are more suspects (how did the
keys get from the FBO to the meth-head?) Items removed from my Suburban as
well as items from other burglaries were found in the suspect's van. And,
after a few hours of friendly questioning, my Suburban was located. All
three were charged with possession of meth and theft in the first degree.
Other charges are pending. The one on parole will have to go back to finish
the nine years left on his prior sentence as well as whatever he is
convicted of for this all these crimes.
The Suburban is in terrible condition. All radios have been removed. Light
and siren controllers damaged beyond repair. Much of my gear is missing.
The vehicle is bent and, in my opinion, broken. There is barbed wire
wrapped around the drive shaft, corn stalks sticking through places I
didn't corn stalks would fit. It has been nose-dived and I'm sure the front
is pushed up. The side panels are dented and the paint is scratched off
down to bare metal. Tomorrow the "discussion" with the insurance company
begins.
I've asked for a drug sniffing dog to go through my stuff before I even
remove it in case there is drug reside of the vehicle was used to transport
drugs. I don't need that when I'm trying to get on an Air Force base and
past their drug sniffing dogs.
So, while APRS did not pinpoint he exact location of my Suburban, it did
establish the first link of a long and complicated chain. Without that link
there would not have been a suspect. And without the suspect the police
would not have know whom to look for.
The case was solved with plain good old fashion police work. APRS just got
the ball rolling. My thanks go out to everyone who assisted. People even
called me to suggest that I use FINDU not realizing that is what got the
ball rolling in the first place. Everyone's heart was in the right place
and I thank you all for that.
Dave
WB0WNX-3 again someday!
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