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Subject: Re: Source of UO-14 Messages?
From: Bob Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 08:40:26 -0400 (EDT)
X-Message-Number: 8
On Mon, 19 May 2003 KB7ADO@aol.com wrote:
>Just wondering if someone knows where the messages come from that appear as
>though they've been sent by UO-14. We have at least one person in the PNW
>who regularily receives them on his D700 mobile and has no idea how or why
>he's been chosen...
He has his position comment set to CUSTOM1 which is used as a "request for
satellite info". If there is an APRSdata engine in your area, and UO-14
comes above the horizon, then it will send a message to the voice
synthesizer in the D700 that will SPEAK the satellite name (UO-14) and its
elevation angle
>It sends one of three different Kenwood D700 VOICE message codes, %[52]
>for HIGH, %[53] for MED, or %[53] for LOW.
Since anyone with a mobile FM rig can QSO through UO-14 if they just know
it is in view, this way if you are mobile, your radio will tell you of a
satellite QSO oopportunity.
And since APRSdata also sends out UO-14 as an object, all the D700 user
has to do is scan down his LIST to find UO-14 and there he will see not
only how far away the satellite is and what direction, but also what the
UPLINK and DONWLINK freqs are (including doppler!). Thus, everyrhing you
need to work UO-14, the FM repeater in the sky...
See http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/satinfo.html
de WB4APR
Bob
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Subject: WinAPRS 2.71
From: "Norman D. Martin" <k7old@flash.net>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 9:53:22
X-Message-Number: 9
Would someone be kind enough to provide me with the URL to D/L new version
of WinAPRS.
Thanks
Norm K7OLD
k7old@arrl.net
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Subject: Re: WinAPRS 2.71
From: Robbie <mwrobertson@attbi.com>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 10:05:19 -0500
X-Message-Number: 10
Hi Norm,
I usually go here:
http://www.winaprs.org
Good luck..
Robbie, wa9inf
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Subject: Re: [Scoutradio] youth scouting/radio web pages
From: Bob Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 11:40:45 -0400 (EDT)
X-Message-Number: 11
On Mon, 19 May 2003, Jean wrote:
>ARRL is planning to create web pages that will appeal to young people
>pertaining to ham radio.
TWO ideas:
1) Well, there are several LIVE APRS pages that would be nice. The best
page would be for them to select their STATE and then be given a LIVE
display of mobiles and stations on the map. They can try to see who is
the closest station or mobile to their school. I will see if I can find
a volunteer to set up these pages.
2) A MORSE CODE QSO ROOM. Dont laugh. I have presented HAM radio to
elementary and middle schools and the ONE thing that always gets their
interest is CW, yes, CW. They love the idea of a secret code. I do not
do HF, I am not a CW enthusiast, but I say again, it is the most
significant thing that grabs the attention of that age kid (today,
because hey've seen everything else already)...
1) One screen would let them TYPE in letters and HEAR CW locally.
(this lets them practice sending)
2) Another one sends them some CW and lets them try to hit the right
letter. and scores them.
3) READ-THE-MAIL - This lets them "tune in" to a QSO in progress by
selecting from any of the QSO's in progress, but they cannot
transmit. (though they can send a signal that alerts the other
members on that channel that someone wants to join them).
4) CALLING CHANNEL - Here is where they can send a CQ and or listen
for others calling CQ.
Notice that it is imperative that they have an ID. This would be a
callsign generated as WEB#XYZ where XYZ are their initials that match
their loggon to the site and # is the best guess of their callsign region.
Later on someone could write a PSK-31 emulator web page AND/OR
the full audio CW web page that I proposed a few years ago:
I can't find where I posted it, but it LOOKS just like an HF radio. AND
you tune around and you HEAR CW audio QSO's and the tones move just like a
real radio. You can tune up and down... and y ou can hear simultaneous
QSO's. Its all generated in your sound card from a stream of QSO's that
are piped together kind of like the worldwide APRS intenet system...
de WB4APR, Bob
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Subject: Re: xastir review
From: Kirk Mefford <kc2elo@softhome.net>
Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 13:39:55 -0400
X-Message-Number: 14
That was a pretty good summary. I've been running Xastir with Cygwin for a
few weeks now myself and couldn't be happier. I'd also like to stress the
importance of following the "README.win32" instructions. If you follow the
instructions in that file you can't go wrong and installation is actually
quite simple. It may be more drawn out than many windows users are used to
but I feel it is totally worth it in the end.
There are a lot of other "little things" you can do once Cygwin is
installed that aren't totally related to Xastir that make Cygwin worth the
effort of downloading. I have Xastir snapshots automatically converted to
jpeg format, resized and uploaded to the internet every 20 minutes thanks
to some of the tools of cygwin among other things that just aren't normally
possible/easy with just windows.
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Subject: Re: xastir review
From: "Curt Mills, WE7U" <hacker@tc.fluke.com>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 12:25:26 -0700 (PDT)
X-Message-Number: 15
On Sun, 18 May 2003, Kirk Mefford wrote:
>There are a lot of other "little things" you can do once Cygwin is
>installed that aren't totally related to Xastir that make Cygwin worth the
>effort of downloading. I have Xastir snapshots automatically converted to
>jpeg format, resized and uploaded to the internet every 20 minutes thanks
>to some of the tools of cygwin among other things that just aren't normally
>possible/easy with just windows.
Another "little" thing you can do with Cygwin/Windows is connect
over from another Windows/Unix/Linux box and start up an app (like
Xastir), but throw the display over to the box you're actually
sitting at. That's a normal thing you can do on any machine running
Xwindows. You just set your DISPLAY variable to the box you're
sitting at (or if you use SSH to connect, DISPLAY will be set for
you automatically), and Xwindows will throw the display your way.
You have full control over it from the remote position, instead of
where the app is actually running.
I have Xastir running on an NT4 box right now with Xastir actually
displaying on this Linux box. I could easily do it in the reverse
direction as well.
NOTE: This Xwindows feature only works for Xwindows apps. In order
to do a similar thing with Windows apps you would need to buy an
add-on package, or else use VNC to get control of the entire remote
desktop, which can be kind of slow.
--
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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Subject: Re: xastir review
From: Bill Vodall <wa7nwp@jnos.org>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 12:50:44 -0700
X-Message-Number: 16
>NOTE: This Xwindows feature only works for Xwindows apps. In order
>to do a similar thing with Windows apps you would need to buy an
>add-on package, or else use VNC to get control of the entire remote
>desktop, which can be kind of slow.
I used Starnet's X11 Windows system for a project. It has a free demo mode
that would pop up messages every half hour. Not ideal but good enough to
do lots of X11 magic on a Microsoft Windows system.
http://www.starnet.com/
73,
Bill - WA7NWP
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Subject: Re: xastir review
From: "Curt Mills, WE7U" <hacker@tc.fluke.com>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 12:57:56 -0700 (PDT)
X-Message-Number: 17
On Mon, 19 May 2003, Bill Vodall wrote:
>I used Starnet's X11 Windows system for a project. It has a free demo mode
>that would pop up messages every half hour. Not ideal but good enough to
>do lots of X11 magic on a Microsoft Windows system.
>
> http://www.starnet.com/
But... Cygwin is free, and updated often.
Hi Bill!
--
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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