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TAPR APRS Special Interest Group Digest for Friday, May 23, 2003.
1. Re: Heart of The Black Hills of SouthDakota
2. Accurate time deal
3. GPS Tracker at center of Washington State supreme court case ...
4. RE: Broadband on Power --City(not FCC) enforces radio law and busts CBer
5. Updated Web Site
6. Updated Web Site
7. RE: aprssig digest: May 22, 2003
8. Digi-ing?
9. RE: Broadband on Power --City(not FCC) enforces radio law and busts CBer
10. Re: WinAPRS Crash
11. RE: Broadband on Power --City(not FCC) enforces radio law and busts CBer
12. Re: Digi-ing?
13. Re: Voice Alert on 144.39
14. Re: Voice Alert on 144.39
15. Re: Digi-ing?
16. Re: Digi-ing?
17. RE: Broadband on Power --City(not FCC) enforces radio law and busts CBer
18. Re: Voice Alert on 144.39
19. RE: Broadband on Power --City(not FCC) enforces radio law and busts CBer
20. RE: Oops
21. RE: APRS-NET COncept!
22. OT: RS MURS radios
23. RE: APRS-NET COncept!
24. mic-e muting
25. GE master II
26. Re: mic-e muting
27. RE: APRS-NET COncept!
28. PCSAT2 (prototype) on AIR
29. Re: WinAPRS Crash
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Subject: Re: Heart of The Black Hills of SouthDakota
From: KC7ZRU - Tate <kc7zru@arrl.net>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 22:42:10 -0600
X-Message-Number: 1
More digi's going up all the time.
The guys in Gillette Wyoming have added one on Mnt. Pisgah (S of Devils
Tower) and they'll soon have another up on Antelope Buttes.
Most of NE Wyoming should have good coverage. Just in time for those
motorcycle trackers to hit Sturgis!
Man, things have sure come a long way form '98 and one digi...
73
Clayon H. Owen wrote:
>Good to see the new digi, KC0BXH-2, 'The Northern Hills Amateur Radio Club'
>up and running in the heart of the Black Hills(Paha Sahapa) of South
>Dakota. Should cover the Badlands and Devils Tower area very nicely for
>those wondering out there this summer for Sturgis(Black Hill's M/C
>Classic)..
>See Bruninga..only took a year to do it..now get on your Beemer and start
>rid'n :)
>
--
"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: GPS Tracker at center of Washington State supreme court case ...
From: WA8LMF2@aol.com
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 06:15:34 EDT
X-Message-Number: 3
Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,58948,00.html
12:55 PM May. 21, 2003 PT
OLYMPIA, Washington -- It seems like grist for a high-tech thriller: Police
hide a paperback-sized satellite tracking device in a suspect's car, then wait
for him to lead them to the shallow grave where he buried his victim.
Such a device pointed investigators to the body of 9-year-old Valiree Jackson
in 1999, helping put her father in prison for murder.
In a first-in-the-nation case, the state's high court heard arguments Tuesday
on whether authorities had sufficient grounds to install the GPS tracker.
Was it an Orwellian violation of William Bradley Jackson's rights, or simply
the electronic equivalent of an unmarked police car tailing him?
Such questions are apt to be raised increasingly as GPS receivers, first
developed for the military, are more widely embraced by society and law
enforcement.
Satellite positioning relies on signals from a constellation of 24 U.S.
military satellites to pinpoint one's exact position on the planet. The
Jackson case involved a GPS receiver combined with a digital cellular
transmitter.
On Tuesday, Jackson's lawyer argued that Spokane County sheriff's deputies
obtained a court order to wire the device to his car on the slimmest of
premises: if guilty, Jackson might return to the crime scene.
"All they had was a theory. They didn't have any concrete proof," attorney
Paul Wasson told the court.
Wasson wants the warrant for the GPS device thrown out for lack of probable
cause. And without the warrant, he and the American Civil Liberties Union
argue, the tracking device violates the state constitution's tough privacy
protections.
Prosecutors contend the warrant isn't the issue. They say sheriff's deputies
didn't need it to keep track of Jackson's movements on public roadways,
something they could have physically done without a warrant.
"This was good police work," Spokane County's Deputy Prosecutor Kevin Korsmo
said. "This is the defendant's comings and goings in public."
Korsmo's opponents argue that a box that silently transmits a car's position
from under its hood is entirely different from a police cruiser that can be
seen in the rearview mirror.
"Among other things, it is possible to notice when someone is following you,"
said Doug Klunder, arguing for the ACLU. "It is more the equivalent of
placing an invisible police officer in the back seat of your vehicle."
Some of the justices seemed alarmed at the privacy implications of the case.
"Do you think that the average citizen would expect to be free from law
enforcement officers putting GPS devices in their cars?" Justice Barbara
Madsen asked Korsmo. "You say it's like following somebody, but it's not
following somebody."
However, when the justices rule on the case some months from now they might
not even take up the privacy issue. Justice Faith Ireland said the court
might simply find that the warrant was proper.
"You can't ignore that there was not probable cause that anything was going
to be found," Wasson protested.
"But something was found," Ireland replied.
Prosecutors said the warrant for the GPS transmitter was sought after blood
was found on a pillow Jackson allegedly used to smother his daughter.
Jackson reported his daughter missing the day she died. He was arrested
nearly a month later after investigators used the GPS system to map his
routes to the burial site. Prosecutors contend Jackson killed Valiree
because she didn't get along with a woman he wanted to marry.
Jackson's lawyers say the girl died from an overdose of a prescription
antidepressant. He denied killing his daughter, saying he had found her
lifeless body in her bed. But he acknowledged burying her in a remote spot
outside Spokane and later digging her up and reburying her 50 miles away.
Jackson was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to 56 years in
prison.
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Subject: RE: Broadband on Power --City(not FCC) enforces radio law and busts
CBerFrom: WA8LMF2@aol.com
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 06:20:37 EDT
X-Message-Number: 4
Further on the PLC carrier interference issue. If the FCC won't do anything
about it, perhaps this kind of enforcement at the local level may set a
precedent....
CB operator charged under new city law
By KRISTIN GORDON, kgordon@nncogannett.com
(Lancaster Ohio Eagle-Gazette Staff)
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Complaints from a group of neighbors experiencing interference on household
appliances from phones and TVs to baby monitors have resulted in a court
case against a local citizens band radio operator.
James A. Disbennet, 48, 427 Harrison Ave., is charged with operating a CB
radio exceeding 4 watts, a first-degree misdemeanor, and two counts of
operating a CB radio without certification, a fourth-degree misdemeanor.
Disbennet, whose handle is "Sugar Bear," answered a summons in Fairfield
County Municipal Court last Tuesday and was released on a recognizance
bond.
In August 2002, Lancaster City Council was the first in the U.S. to pass
such an ordinance, allowing the city to enforce rules set by the Federal
Communication Commission regulating the strength of CB radios, said
Assistant City Law Director Dave Trimmer.
According to the ordinance, the definition of CB radio "includes all
private, two-way, short-distance voice communications service for personal
or business activities of the general public."
In January, local residents began to log feedback problems they
experienced, Trimmer said. Noise was reported on Harrison, Fifth and
Washington avenues.
One woman had problems almost every time she used her telephone. She said
it interfered with calls such as learning a family member was in the
hospital.
Another woman heard interference over a baby monitor she keeps near her
husband who suffered from a stroke. When she heard calls from a CB radio
operator named "Sugar Bear" late at night, she would have to turn off the
monitor so it wouldn't wake her husband.
"Complainants must have a log of the interference for a minimum of four
weeks and there has to be more than one complainant in order to file
charges," Trimmer said.
After a phone conversation with a woman on Harrison Avenue where he could
hear interference himself, Trimmer went to the neighborhood to investigate,
he said. He talked to a few individuals, including Disbennet, who said he
was a CB radio operator but did not possess an amplifier to exceed the
lawful power output.
"It's a hobby," Trimmer said. "Sometimes these hobbies get in the way of
the rights of the neighbors."
On April 10, Tim Deitz, assistant superintendent of the city's Electrical,
Communications and Signals Department, used a relative signal strength
meter in the 400 block of Harrison Avenue to determine where interference
was coming from. The signals he received came from Disbennet's home, which
had a 40- to 50-foot antenna attached to it.
A search warrant was performed the next day by Lancaster police, who seized
four pieces of CB radio equipment worth more than $1,000 from Disbennet's
home.
"We're obviously treading on new ground," said Scott Wood, Disbennet's
attorney. "He's not been given any type of option to defend himself. This
is a big hobby for him, something he enjoys doing.
"It has him concerned, of course -- he could be facing jail time."
The maximum penalty for a first-degree misdemeanor is a $1,000 fine and 180
days in jail.
Wood also is concerned about the case, which he's just begun investigating.
"It's obviously a very interesting case -- this is the first ordinance of
its kind in the country," he said. "But apparently, this ordinance was
passed in August 2002 but was never published."
According to the ordinance, No. 30-02, it was passed by council Aug. 26 and
approved Aug. 28.
The city started looking into the problem nearly two years earlier after
neighbors on Talmadge Avenue started having problems, Trimmer said. The
city received a petition with 28 signatures and contacted the FCC
repeatedly about the problem of enforcement.
Originally published Wednesday, May 21, 2003
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