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TAPR APRS Special Interest Group Digest for Wednesday, July 16, 2003.
1. RE: 'disposable' 2-meter radios?
2. Help with AprsData
3. Camera ideas for an APRS tracked SUB?
4. PHGr/ on the web!
5. North TX APRS Workshop
6. Aprs Symbols
7. RE: Green Stars
8. Re: PHGr/ on the web!
9. RE: Green Stars
10. Re: FW: Balloon update
11. RE: Camera ideas for an APRS tracked SUB?
12. Re: Camera ideas for an APRS tracked SUB?
13. RE: Green Stars
14. Original TAPR Mic-e
15. Re: Camera ideas for an APRS tracked SUB?
16. Re: Camera ideas for an APRS tracked SUB?
17. Re: Camera ideas for an APRS tracked SUB?
18. Re: Camera ideas for an APRS tracked SUB?
19. Re: Original TAPR Mic-e
20. Re: Camera ideas for an APRS tracked SUB?
21. APRS Initalization Files; Where 2 Get?
22. Re: Camera ideas for an APRS tracked SUB?
23. Re: APRS Initalization Files; Where 2 Get?
24. SMALL 144MHz Transmitter
25. Re: Camera ideas for an APRS tracked SUB?
26. Re: Camera ideas for an APRS tracked SUB?
27. Re: Camera ideas for an APRS tracked SUB?
28. Re: Camera ideas for an APRS tracked SUB?
29. RE: APRS Initalization Files; Where 2 Get?
30. Re: North TX APRS Workshop
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Subject: RE: 'disposable' 2-meter radios?
From: "Daron J. Wilson" <daron@wilson.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 21:14:41 -0700
X-Message-Number: 1
Here is what I was thinking of, somewhat close to your needs maybe.
http://www.abra-electronics.com/catalog/kits/r_hobby/r_mr6.html
73's N7HQR
Daron J. Wilson, RCDD ) )
Telecom Manager ( (
LH Morris Electric, Inc. ) )
(541) 265-8067 office _|****| mmm!
(541) 265-7652 fax ( | | coffee!
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daron.wilson@lhmorris.com |____|
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Subject: Help with AprsData
From: "Michael J. Wolthuis" <wolthui3@msu.edu>
Date: 16 Jul 2003 03:39:26 -0400
X-Message-Number: 2
Everyone,
I have APRSData running on a PC in the corner and I watched it send out
the position as ISS went over tonight. It transmitted fairly often, but
my d7a always flashed oM ISS on the front of the screen and never put it
in as a position or DX object.
Any ideas my problem? It seems to have been happening for a while.
Mike
kb8zgl
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Subject: Camera ideas for an APRS tracked SUB?
From: "Dakota Summerhawk" <dakotas@dotorg.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 02:32:08 -0600
X-Message-Number: 3
I have completed my work on my RC sub (complete with APRS tracker) couple of
questions I have are:
1. Is there a boat icon? I cant seen to remember seeing a sub icon and the
boat will do nicely as well.
2. Can anyone recommend a small camera to be mounted in the front of the
unit that will transmit on the 440 Mhz band for use in SSTV? I would love to
have the ability to see what my RC does as well as track it. I am using a
tiny trak along with a GPS board and one of the radio shack 2M HT so the
output of the signal is only 300 mW but it is enough to have tracking on my
palm for most of the lake. Testing the unit the GPS goes deaf at about 10 FT
under water even with a whip antenna mounted on the thing (at 20 FT it
emergency surfaces anyways)and the whip I have mounted on it for the 2M side
does well for short range. I can get it to show up on the network if I digi
into the car with the D700 but I was thinking that no one wanted to see the
icon for the sub anyhow.
Anyways can someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks
Dakota
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Subject: PHGr/ on the web!
From: "Ev Tupis (W2EV)" <w2ev@arrl.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 06:44:05 -0400
X-Message-Number: 4
Jim (KB0THN) has done a wonderful job of taking on-air data and converting
it into a presentation format for web viewing. He mines for Bob's PHGr/
construct and displays the information for all to see. Hyperlinking on a
station callsign will display a map of that station's region and other APRS
stations that are showing up on the IStream.
How can you participate? Easy! Place PHGr/ in your frame. The more people
that do it, the more useful the data becomes.
PHGr/ Information: http://web.usna.navy.mil/~bruninga/aprs/probes.txt
PHGr/ Calculator: http://www.apritch.myby.co.uk/phgrcalc.htm
(thanks for the calc, Andy!)
Remember: PHG is in capitol letters (I've got plans up my sleeve for the
lower-case version <g>).
Jim is to be congratulated for his excellent work! This has the makings of a
very powerful feature to be exploited by the PropNET group, too.
Ev, W2EV
http://www.beaconet.org
http://www.propnet.org
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Subject: North TX APRS Workshop
From: "Bud Talbot" <kb9wvg@arrl.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 6:41:59
X-Message-Number: 5
Anyone planning on going? Forwarded from another list:
It's Coming!
The 2003 North Texas APRS Workshop.
And YOU can be involved!
Are you an experienced APRS operator? Do you have a cool APRS mobile or
portable station that you'd like to show off? Do you want to help promote
the use of APRS for public service or just plain fun? Well you're invited
to get involved with the first North Texas APRS Workshop. This event is
currently in the planning stages and we are looking for some clubs or
individual Hams to help make this a worthwhile fun and informative event.
We are putting together an APRS workshop in the D/FW area. The date has
been tentatively set for Saturday, September 6. The location has not been
fixed at this time. We are planning on a 9 hour event with 3 discussion
tracks (hardware, software and operating practice) and an open workshop. We
are looking for volunteers to form the steering committee and work the
various functions.
A proposal in MS Word format containing more detail on this event is
available on the web at www.redsword.com/jbeadles/radio/. If you are
interested in volunteering or just attending, please notify the event
coordinator, John Beadles, N5OOM at n5oom@arrl.net or call 972-685-8713.
You do not have to be a technical expert to work this event!!!
This should be a great opportunity for ARRL NTX Section Affiliated Clubs to
get together and help to make this a successful event. Spread the word to a
fellow club member and help us get volunteers to plan and work the ARPS
Workshop.
73,
Roy Rabey - AD5KZ
ARRL NTX SM
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ARRL North Texas Section
Section Manager: Roy C. Rabey, AD5KZ
ad5kz@arrl.org
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Subject: Aprs Symbols
From: dale huguley <kg5qd@wxsvr.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:44:36 +0000
X-Message-Number: 6
Hi All-
SMOKE:
I fixed the part of Wxsvr that parses Volcanic Ash Advisories and made
it global. There are 6 or 7 centers that issue bulletins when a volcano
puts out enough ash to be a danger to aviation. Yesterday there were
bulletins concerning Popocatepetl near Mexico City, Soufriere Hills on
Montserrat, Anatahan in the Pacific south of Japan, and Kliuchevskoi on
the Kamchatka Peninsula. I am using the "\E" symbol which is supposed
to be for smoke. The symbol seems to be a smokestack with emissions- I
can't imagine when one would use the symbol as it is. I changed mine on
UI-view and Xastir to a volcano with ash out the top.
SKYWARN:
The Hazardous Weather Outlook uses two symbols. A wx with an "O" overlay
for an area with no skywarn activity expected - or a Skywarn symbol if a
negative activation is not detected. I am up to 30 or so ways the NWS
can say "Ain't nothin' happenin' today yall" and they are inventing
new ones every day or two, so there are sometimes false positves . I
was surprised to learn that the skywarn symbol was not in the spec -
and was added later. It is not used in Ui-View, Winaprs, or Aprs-Plus.
Winaprs has its icons hard coded , but the other two are easily fixed.
finger wxsvr@wxsvr.net will give you a set of "one-liners" that are
sorted by the County warning area id and give you an idea of the wx
activity and possible skywarn activations nationwide. There are a couple
of bugs in this - but it looks better every day. If you are using
Ui-view, right clicking the skywarn icon ("no symbol yet" if you haven't
changed the icon) west of the Dry Tortugas in the Gulf of Mexico and
choosing "Finger Wxsvr" does the same thing.
Overlays:
I use numerous overlay characters for the various centers of
watches/warnings/advisories. These seem to work ok in most clients
except in Winaprs where they don't work - just a blank square that
covers whatever is below it. Zooming out on an area with a lot of
activity will cover the area with blanks, or seemingly random
microscopic letters. I would like to be able to make overlays
contextural- in other words an overlay for a weather object could be a
graphic rather than a letter.
73 de kg5qd Dale
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