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

[Bob]

Hi,

      Well I'm a little late to this thread but a starting point for a database 
of repeaters for the GPS might be here:

http://www.poi-factory.com/taxonomy/term/40

      Although some files seem old it is still useful in that in a new area it 
shows 90% or more of the repeaters with no effort.

      Getting the data to program the radio would be a neat and very useful 
trick. Since radios are starting to have GPS's built in maybe the next 
generation will be capable of loading on demand all repeaters within a radius 
based on positional data. That would be a feature that would entice me to buy
a new HT and mobile radio as soon as that was available.

73,
Bob
K2TK  ex KN2TKR (1956) & K2TKR





________________________________
  From: Phil Hystad <phystad at mac.com>
To: "elecraft at mailman.qth.net Reflector" <Elecraft at mailman.qth.net> Sent: 
Tuesday, September 10, 2013 9:46 AM
Subject: [Elecraft] Slightly Off-Topic: Roving update of default repeater station

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