[aprssig] "Emergency!" test convention?

[Rodney Padmore]

Please, the spelling is "Nova Scotia" and we are not on 1/2 earlier time; we
are 1 full hour earlier than Eastern time. You are confusing Nova Scotia
with the Province of "Newfoundland and Labrador", which is a sister Atlantic
Province but not on the same time zone.They are on Newfoundland time which
is 1hr,30minutes earlier than Eastern. While we are flattered to be confused
with "The Rock" as that province is affectionally known by, we Nova Scotians
are proud of our province and are quick to react when confused with another
. We invite our American friends to visit both our provinces, both of which
have many affectionate ties to the United States of America yet are distinct
provinces in their own right. I know this is "OT" and hope I will be
forgiven, 73 de Rod, VE1BSK. ----- Original Message ----- 
From: <wes at johnston.net>
To: <aprssig at lists.tapr.org>
Cc: <aprssig at lists.tapr.org>; <kc2mmi at verizon.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [aprssig] "Emergency!" test convention?


> It is really a shame that 2 of the 8 mic-e message types weren't EMERGENCY
and
> EMERGENCY TEST.
>
> I'd forgotten about nova scocia (sp?) being on a 1/2 hour offset.  We just
need
> to specify that a test time needs to be +/-2.5 minutes from the top of the
UTC
> hour (which would be the bottom of the hour for people on the 1/2hour
offset
> timezones.)
>
> Wes
>
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 08:48:24 -0700, "Scott Miller" wrote:
>
> >
> > While nothing out there uses it yet, OpenTRAC defines a simulated
emergency
> > flag.  The idea is that you'd configure your client for
excercise/simulation
> > mode, and it'd respond to the flag as if it were a real emergency
(hopefully
> > with some visible reminder that you're in simulation mode.)  I don't
know if
> > there are any more Mic-E status codes available, but that might be one
way
> > to do it.
> >
> > I think a quiet time is a bad idea.  If you're going to do it, make it
only
>
>
> ham callsign: kd4rdb
> find me: http://wesvan.zapto.org
>
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