[FADCA] 35 Telpacs in FLorida? Is that for real?

[bud thompson]

The WL2K Telpac list indicates 35 Telpac stations in the FLORIDA GROUP when 
sorted by grid square.  (There may be more as not all grid squares in 
Florida fall in the same contiguous group when sorted by grid square.  The 
APRS map does not show that many.  I suggest we all try to find any call on 
the following list that you really doubt STILL has a Telpac on the air and 
make contact to confirm.  It is likely that (1) folks jumped in 18 months 
ago and got on the bandwagon,  registered a node, put up a Telpac node - 
then lost interest and did not follow up to delete it from the list when 
taking it off the air, or (2) have not bothered to install the APRS 
reporting feature.  Please review this list and if you recognize a call you 
doubt really has a node on the air, try to contact that person and ask 
him/her to follow up and delete it from the WL2K registration if off the 
air, or install the APRS reporting feature.

On a related matter, it will be very beneficial to EMCOMMs for all Telpac 
nodes to have an SSID of -10.

The value of having Telpac nodes on lists/maps on the internet is diminished 
exponentially by the number of nodes on the list that are no longer there!

73,
bud N0IA


W1NPR-10
N9AWP-2
WB4GQK
KG4FCD-1
WB4WBL
KP4DJT-10
N6ZUE-10
K4LVR-9
K4GBB-4
WE0D-4
K4ECM-7
N1HVH
WA4PAM-2
WA2DXQ
WB4MOZ-10
KD4LXB-10
W4MIN-6
N4XEO-10
N1GYX-2
W5TWR-10
N4JCV
KD4WOV-8
W8EHH-10
N1FL-10
KG4RUW
N2QGV
AC4CX
N3PPC-10
N0IA
N0IA-10
KB0VVV
KN6KB
KN6KB-10
AF4N-10
KC4PX-10