[CoARES-D10] APRS for non-amateur use

Fri, 2 Jan 2004 10:31:55 -0700

I think there have been applications of similar technology.  For example, I
have heard of police radios that burst a packet of location information via
a subcarrier every time they key up their radio. Additionally, I have a
coworker at NOAA who wrote a proposal to build a bunch of low cost,
deployable weather stations that would use APRS to transmit their data to a
central location.  The idea is that these weather stations would be deployed
in the vicinity of wildfire locations and would feed observations via APRS
back to a location where high-resolution forecast models could be run to
support fire fighting operations and decision making.

Brent
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael T. Haynie" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 10:12 AM
Subject: [CoARES-D10] APRS for non-amateur use

> Greetings all,
> I was wondering if the APRS system is solely designated for amateur use.
> Obviously operating on 145.390 is illegal for non-amateurs, but is the
> protocol itself governed by Part 97? There seem to be a million uses for
> position reporting over VHF outside of the amateur bands for emergency
> services (wildland fire in particular). For volunteer departments, the
> commercial versions are too expensive to even be practical. Thus, having
> APRS on a mic-e or tiny trak system for personal accountability or
real-time
> incident mapping would be extremely useful. Anyone have any thoughts on
the
> legality of using this type of technology on non-ham bands?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Michael Haynie
> KC0EXP
>
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