[Elecraft] S: Re: Slightly Off-Topic: Roving update of default repeater station

[Andy McMullin]

Phil,

We don't have it over here in the UK, but I'm told you do!

There are transmissions on APRS (144.800 MHz in Europe, 144.39 in the USA) that not only give names and frequencies of local repeaters but some 2m rigs will automatically QSY their second band there. 

Have a look at http://www.aprs.org  And in particular http://www.aprs.org/localinfo.html

Hope this helps. 



Sorry if there are any typos,
this is sent from my iPad
Andy

> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Phil Hystad <phystad at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> This question has nothing to do with Elecraft rigs (well, possibly
>> remotely if I assume a KX3 as mobile with the future to be provided 2-meter
>> option).
>> 
>> Yesterday I drove to Portland from my QTH of Kirkland near Seattle.  This
>> is a 3 1/2 hour trip down I-5 (and, the return).  In the Seattle area, I
>> had my 2-meter mobile rig in my truck sitting on a repeater frequency but
>> it was not too long before I was out of range of that repeater.  I wondered
>> briefly about changing to some nearby closer repeater but it was not that
>> important to me but I started thinking about an automated way to do this.
>> 
>> I have GPS in various guises with my Truck (iPhone, iPad, and my little
>> Garmin GPS at times), so what if I had a way of extracting location,
>> looking up location of nearest repeater in my database (if I had one), and
>> then having a interface to my rig to update the repeater frequency, split
>> offset, tone, etc.  All very possible.
>> 
>> So, my question:  Does such a thing now exist?  I don't pay enough
>> attention to repeater-life to know what other hams may have already created?
>> 
>> 73, phil, K7PEH
>> 
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