[FADCA] SSIDs

[Aa4mi at aol.com]

To FADCA Technical Committee,
 
I have a very simple question:
 
What Secondary Station IDs(SSID) does FADCA either recommend or 
 
request be used for each station's function within Florida?
 

Please provide a function/use for each:
 
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and any  others.
 

My reasons for asking are twofold:
 
My personal: 
 
1. I am planning to put APRS in each of my 2 vehicles.
 
2. I am planning to put APRS in my QTH. (Yes, I know it doesn't  move.)
 
3. I am planning an APRS WX reporting site.
 
4. I may want to put an APRS in my hiking backpack or on my boat.
 
5. Eventually APRN may become a functional mode in Florida.
 

Second, for all packet users:
 
1. When I look at a FADCA network plan or APRS map and see a SSID, I should  
be able immediately (at least in Florida) to know what the specific SSID  
indicates.
 
2. Since professional/Official weather sources have predicted that for the  
next 10 to 20 years, Florida will have substantial quantities and intensities 
of  hurricanes, we must all be "singing from the same sheet of music".
 
3. And lastly, since we are a prime tourist area, visiting as well new  
permanent hams should be easily incorporated to use and/or be be able to  establish 
thir own SSIDs without conflict to a FADCA recommended state  standard.
 

Final thought:
 
If there is no FADCA state standard, why not? 
 
I would be willing to volunteer to help establish a standard. (Now there's  
an offer you 
don't hear often.) Yes, I know this would be difficult to accomplish since  
we already have established SSIDs that stations have been using.  And, yes,  I 
already "know" the comment that "we shouldn't go changing things because many  
stations already now that such-and-such SSID means "this-or-that" and/or 
"we've  been using it for years".
 
See, I told you in the beginning I had a "simple question".  Now  what's the 
simple answer?  And, no, I don't want a long drawn out  blah-blah,blah one.
 
Thank you.
 

Always working toward a betterment of ham radio for 50 years as a  licensed 
ham, 
with kindest regards,
73,
Carl,AA4MI
e-mail: _aa4mi at arrl.net_ (mailto:aa4mi at arrl.net)