[nrv-hams] APRS comments

[Russ Abbey]

Hi Everyone,
I want to thank Ron for the presentation last night!  Also the Gentleman
(and here I apologize, I think it was Jim N6QDO?) for his presentation and
all of the work put into this.  Many thinks!
A thought here for the bike events.
Back a couple of years ago I had set up a portable APRS station and a
portable Airmail station for the Poor Mountain Hill Climb!  We were on a
different frequency from the national channel, and it worked slick a s all
get out.  We only had 3 trackers, but one on the SAG vehicle and one on one
of the bikes and and I could follow the progress.  It was a test more then
anything, but it did work.  I was looking in my "junk/to be built" box this
morning and found 2 built Tiny Track 4's and one of the Argent Data's OT-1
that are built.  I also have 3 more TT-4's that need to be built and one of
Argent Data.  Then I have two of the Kantronics KPC-3+ with the built in
GPS.
If you have a Kantronics TNC or any TNC,  all's you have to do is add a GPS
to it and you can get onto the APRS kick. :)

73
Russ Abbey
KG4MAV
kg4mav at gmail.com

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Ron Angert <rangert at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks to all for your participation in our APRS presentation last night.
>
> I thought of one thing that was not made clear, and that regards using the
> commercial product Precision Mapping v9.
>
> One does NOT have to use this.  Maps from other, often free sources can be
> used.  For example if you are only interested in the New River Valley, or a
> bike race route, you can make maps, assign coordinates to match points on
> the graphic image and 'install' them in ui-view32.  This is a lot of work,
> so for most people it is much easier to buy the Precision Map option.
>
> Other topics not covered were alternatives to ui-view32, and there are
> several.  I have another laptop with XASTIR, a open source product that
> runs on Linux.  Maps again are the labor intensive issue.  I downloaded the
> tiger maps (Federal Govt maps) that are free.  pretty ugly compared to
> Google maps or even Precision Maps. There are other windows based packages
> being actively developed as well, but I have no experience wiht them.
>
> BIKE RACE IDEAS:
> Another point on the use during bike races etc is that we can move off the
> standard APRS freq of 144.390, run our trackers and digipeaters on some
> other freq.  I run a digi in my car all the time, so putting someone's
> vehicle at each checkpoint running a simple digipeater or ui-view32 with
> digi running, possibly with a portable antenna erected, could be a way to
> make this work. It would run on the car battery for a week, mine runs for
> days on one of those small batteries Mike was giving away last year.
>
> Ron N4AJT
>
> --
> Ron Angert in Beautiful Southwest Virginia
> http://oldbikerider.blogspot.com/
>
> "The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level
> of thinking that
> created them." Albert Einstein
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