[aprssig] National Parks APRS Digi Coverage (Rev 4)

Sat Oct 9 02:56:32 UTC 2004

I think the Grand Tetons do have APRS coverage.
Look at W7OID-4.
It is on top of the Tram at Teton Village.  BUT (if I am not mistaken)
they are not on 144.390 witch does someone traveling through the area no
good.
I was up there a couple of weeks ago with our club providing support for
a bike race and forgot to check for sure.

Bob Bruninga wrote:

> Just like Cellular, we dont need mobile APRS coverage as much where
> we live as where we DRIVE.  Yet for us it is easiest to put coverage
> where we live...  As a community, we also need to consider where our
> fellow HAMs are traveling and making sure they are covered.  With 32
> HAMs a day visiting the Grand Canyon, we need a digi there... and
> other places:
>
> TOURIST AREA       VISITRS/YR HAMS/DAY APRS  REPORTED BY
> -----------------  ---------- -------- ----  --------------
> Acadia Natl Pk     2,469,000    16     ?
> Arches NP            786,000     6     no    WB4APR
> Assateaque Is      1,810,000    12     some  WB4APR
> Badlands ND        1,105,000     7     ?
> Banff, Yoho, Kootenay   ?        ?     YES   VE6SZR
> Big Bend NP             ?        ?     no    KB9WVG
> Bryce Canyon NP    1,099,000     7     no    WB4APR (1999)
> Blue Ridge Pkwy   19,153,000   130     yes
> C&O Canal (MD)     3,115,000    21     yes   Hrprs Fy to Whites Fy
> Canyonlands NP       401,000     3     ?
> Cape Cod Seashore  4,581,000    30     some  N1Bq
> Chatahoochee Rvr   2,659,000    18     yes
> Cape Hatteras      2,647,000    18     yes   KF4OTN
> Death Valley       1,179,000     8     ?
> Devils Tower         383,000     2     no    N2IPH & KC5JIF
> Everglades         1,000,000     7     yes   N4TCW
> Gettysburg         1,542,000    10     yes
> Glacier NP         1,728,000    12     ?
> Glen Canyon        2,568,000    17     no    WB4APR (99)
> Grand Tetons       2,590,000    17     no    WA8LMF
> Great Smokies     14,486,000    95     yes   spotty
> Grand Canyon       4,460,000    32     no    WB4APR June 99
> Hawaii Volcanoes   1,514,000    10     ?
> Indiana Dunes      1,820,000    12     yes   K9APR
> Lake Meade         8,755,000    60     yes   N7ZEV
> Mamouth Cave       1,749,000    12     some  KA0AZS
> Mesa Verde           452,000     4     yes   at top
> Mount Rainer       1,344,000     9     ?
> Mt Rushmore        1,868,000    12     no    N2IPH & KC5JIF
> Natchez Trace Pky  5,737,000    38     some?
> Ozarks             1,568,000    10     ?
> Rocky Mountain     3,185,000    21     no    camps nor hdqtrs
> Shenandoah NP      1,419,000     9     probably
> San Antonnio(Alamo)1,394,000     9     yes   K5ZZT
> Sequoia              838,000     6     some  KG6JVE
> Shiloh                  ?        ?     soon  Skaggs
> Virgin Islands       704,000     6     no    WB4APR (1995)
> Yellostone         3,100,000    20     no    N2IPH & KC5JIF
> Yosemite           3,400,000    22     ?
> Zion Natl Pk       2,432,000    16     no    WB4APR
>
> The criteria here are those areas that are remote from the existing
> terrestrial APRS infrastructure and which probably do not have enough
> permanent locals to support a digi... "Coverage" means that you can
> communicate from the parking lot of the biggest Campground or
> Headquarters (Hiking to the TOP of the mountain doesn't count).
>
> If you can supply any info above, please send to me and I will update
> this list... Including of course, adding other areas.
>
> If you can HELP place a digi there, PLEASE DO!
>
> de WB4APR, Bob
>
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