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Subject: Re: EMERGENCY BEACON EA8EE/MM(?)
From: "Michael Amos" <kg4nds@bellsouth.net>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 16:49:49 -0400
X-Message-Number: 41
I've passed it on to N4ELU to place onto the Maritime net and they are
currently working on finding out the situation. Will inform of more info.
Mike
KG4NDS
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Subject: Re: EMERGENCY BEACON EA8EE/MM(?)
From: "Michael Amos" <kg4nds@bellsouth.net>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 17:07:21 -0400
X-Message-Number: 42
US Coast Guard informed us that they will pass on to Portugal and let them
check it out.
Mike
KG4NDS
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Subject: RE: Appalachain Trail
From: Steve Dimse <k4hg@tapr.org>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 17:22:35 -0400
X-Message-Number: 43
On 5/5/03 at 1:35 PM kf6hjo@earthlink.net (Kurt O. Jauss) sent:
>Maybe Florida has some extra voting machines we could get and..... ;-)
>
>I can see "CHADS" all over the trail.
This joke brings up something I had emailed Bob when he asked me for some
findU support. Before doing something like this, it is important to do some
market research.
Is there really a need (perceived or real) for something like this? Some
people hike the AT to get away from technology. Sure, if I was hiking the
trail I'd like this, but I could never commit to a whole summer away from
technology.
My guess is that the sort of people that do thru-hike the AT might not take
kindly to the idea of being "swiped" through a checkout stand (or even just
looking at the scanner), any more than they'd like the idea of having chads
litter the trail.
The AT passes near quite a few towns along the way, where thru-hikers
receive provisioning packages, and can make phone calls to loved-one to get
word out they are still alive.
Is this effort worth the time and money it would cost?
Steve K4HG
FWITW, I'm planning my own 4 day sojourn on the AT, the week after
Dayton...and at that I'll have a laptop, wireless web, D7, and GPS. So much
for roughing it!
Steve K4HG
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Subject: Re: EMERGENCY BEACON EA8EE/MM(?)
From: Miller Scott Contr 30SCS/FTI <Scott.Miller@vandenberg.af.mil>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 21:27:59 -0000
X-Message-Number: 44
I still think we really need an emergency beacon tracking website. Maybe
just adapt a weblog program to generate a new 'article' with appropriate
findu/aprsworld links whenever a beacon pops up. Logged-in users could add
timestamped comments to show their response and the resolution of the
incident.
I checked the log for EA8EE and he hasn't moved more than 60 meters or so in
the last 24 hours. Looks to be about 11 km offshore.
Scott
N1VG
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Subject: PMAP_OCX?
From: Jim Duncan <jdbandman@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 16:39:08 -0500
X-Message-Number: 45
I notice that there is a Mar '03 version of PMAP_OCX on the WinAPRS
download page. What version of Precision Maps does this OCX apply to?
Is it necessary to run this after installing the WAPRS 270?
--
73 de Jim, KU0G
Chairman/Coordinator
Kansas City APRS Working Group, W0APR
First Alert Storm Team KMBC-TV9
Mailto:ku0g@kcaprs.org
Webpage: http://www.kcaprs.org
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Subject: RE: Appalachain Trail
From: Miller Scott Contr 30SCS/FTI <Scott.Miller@vandenberg.af.mil>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 21:35:52 -0000
X-Message-Number: 46
Make the boxes fairly unobtrusive, and if people don't want to mess with
them, they don't. For those with anxious spouses at home, though, it might
be a useful thing.
On the EA8EE emergency thing, I just noticed that the IGATE it went through
is in Germany. Is the network over there really dense enough to get a
packet from the Canary Islands to Germany? I see it's got a WIDE7,TRACE7
path... it'd dang well better be an emergency to justify that.
And why the 'please call me' rather than something useful like 'Help, I'm
sinking'?
Scott
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Subject: KCAPRS Site...
From: Jim Duncan <jdbandman@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 16:59:18 -0500
X-Message-Number: 47
Had a chat with the site administrator today. It seems he has lost his
DSL line due to an error on the side of SBC. He was trying to drop the
voice line but they totally disconnected his DSL line which now will
take about 10 days to restore. Consequently, the server has been
temporarily moved to a new located and it will take 2-3 days for the new
DNS entries to propagate through the internet.
We will return! I will say that the site will soon undergo a major
overhaul with a lot of non-current information being deleted. Sometime
in the next couple of months (after we can purchase our own machine) the
site will again be offline for a few days while DNS entires once again
propagate.
--
73 de Jim, KU0G
Chairman/Coordinator
Kansas City APRS Working Group, W0APR
First Alert Storm Team KMBC-TV9
Mailto:ku0g@kcaprs.org
Webpage: http://www.kcaprs.org
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Subject: RE: PMAP_OCX?
From: "Bill Diaz" <william.diaz@attbi.com>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 17:10:58 -0500
X-Message-Number: 48
Jim,
March 28, 2003 appears to be the date it was posted, not the OCX date.
There was no March 2003 release of the Pmap OCX 5.0. However, you can
expect a Pmap 6.0 version to be released before long, with much improved
maps.
Bill
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Subject: Re: KCAPRS Site...
From: Jim Duncan <jdbandman@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 17:47:32 -0500
X-Message-Number: 49
The "Elmers" page is one that is going to be dumped. It has
consistently shown one of the bottom 3 usage stats. I think that given
the prevalence of APRS around the country now that most people know
somebody that does APRS or is being introduced by an existing user.
This somewhat changes the way that people get help I believe. When I
started in 1993 it was out of curiosity from seeing all of Bob B's email
to "APRS" coming over my BBS. Given the publicity surrounding APRS over
the past several years now it hardly seems necessary to keep such a
resource online. At least that's MY take on it.... other
comments/opinions would be most welcome!
FWIW: the initial mission of KCAPRS has long been fulfilled and the
group is in somewhat of a "reorganizational" status. We continue to
serve as a source group for information but we are no longer quite as
active, in the sense of hamfests, events, etc., as we have been in the
past.
Most of this is due to the fact that I have had to step back from being
the APRS-pusher due to graduate school (I'm working toward my Ph.D.
having finished my M.A. in Music Education last August) and other
concerns that have kept my time tied up more than I'd like.
The group has turned into more of a consortium in the past three years
than so much of a "club" that we originally were. With a little more
time on my hands (or the stepping forward of someone with the time to
commit to it) I hope to see the group reorganized into a more social
organization once again.
FWIW: I'm TRYING to get my personal act together (getting a
dissertation abstract and proposal finalized!) in time to take off and
head out to Dayton to make "the bash" (been 3 years since I was there
last!) but my D700A (as most know from prior postings) has gone _______
up and is on it's way to Kenwood East for repair. This leaves me
without a functional APRS set-up in the vehicle unless I can cobble
together enough $$$ to pick up a new D700 before Dayton....
BTW: my latest physical report came back positive and I don't have to go
back for a year!
Take care, everyone....
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Subject: Tiger-mania
From: Robbie <mwrobertson@attbi.com>
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 18:09:14 -0500
X-Message-Number: 50
Hi all Tiger installers!
Is there someway anyone can better explain the process of getting the
appropriate, (necessary), files and where to put them other than the way
the Help File of WinAPRS 2.70 does it??
The older I get, the denser I get.. Thanks in advance.
Robbie, wa9inf
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Subject: WAPRS 270 bug report.
From: Jim Duncan <jdbandman@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 18:26:20 -0500
X-Message-Number: 51
Just started 2.7.0.... My Precision Map window can not be adjusted for
size. Seems to be stuck with respect to width. Height seems to adjust
OK and expand/minimize works...
--
73 de Jim, KU0G
Chairman/Coordinator
Kansas City APRS Working Group, W0APR
First Alert Storm Team KMBC-TV9
Mailto:ku0g@kcaprs.org
Webpage: http://www.kcaprs.org
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Subject: More bugs?
From: Jim Duncan <jdbandman@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 18:32:45 -0500
X-Message-Number: 52
Just opened the Tiger Map Window. Nothing but a state outline so I'm
assuming that I've got to download some data files.
Tried to open a TCP connection (used Third.APRS...). Got an immediate
UHEE error and fatal program crash.
--
73 de Jim, KU0G
Chairman/Coordinator
Kansas City APRS Working Group, W0APR
First Alert Storm Team KMBC-TV9
Mailto:ku0g@kcaprs.org
Webpage: http://www.kcaprs.org
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