[aprssig] How does this work then? "Portuguese Invasion"of Eastern

[lcerney at viawest.net]

This is not new.  I run the I-Gate in Denver, CO and have had CT blocked in
UI-View for a couple of years!  One of the CT stations out by the thriving
metropolis of Punkin Center, CO is the Portuguese ARRL!
I sent a couple of emails to them with no response and asked about it here with
no response, so I just blocked them in software.
With all the talk of securing our borders, I don’t think we shouldn’t be letting
the Portuguese sneak in through APRS ;-) 

> f5vag at nerim.net wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org
> >> [mailto:aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org]On Behalf Of Stephen H. Smith
> >> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 6:31 PM
> >> To: TAPR APRS Mailing List
> >> Subject: Re: [aprssig] How does this work then? "Portuguese Invasion"of
> >> Eastern Colorado!
> >>
> >>
> >> Definitely a screwed up igate in CT among other things.  I'm now see 
> >> FOUR CT's in eastern Colorado about 50 miles south-east of Denver.    
> >> See this image:
> >>     
> >
> > You will probably see that they are all gated by CS1SEL. This IGATE
> > seems to replace the longitude, but does not drop characters and is
> > therefore not captured with my filter.
> >
> >
> >   
> 
> Didn't know there were that many Mic-E users in Portugal.   Now there 
> are 7 "invaders" in eastern Colorado!
> 
> Here is a screen shot from APRSpoint - an APRS client that directly uses 
> local MapPoint maps, either North America or Europe.     This 
> application is actually a plugin that runs inside MapPoint itself -- the 
> normal functionality of MapPoint (address lookups, route planning, etc) 
> remains while APRSpoint is running. 
> 
> One nice feature of APRSpoint is that it can draw track lines for 
> selected stations without add-ons.  I set it to track CT1EIZ-9 .  I 
> suspect the track line shown will correspond perfectly to some major 
> road in Portugal.  
>      http://webs.lanset.com/wa8lmf/aprs/Portuguese_Invasion2.gif
> 
> Here is the same view from UIview with Precision Mapping 7.0:
>     http://webs.lanset.com/wa8lmf/aprs/Portuguese_Invasion2-UIview.gif
> 
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> Stephen H. Smith    wa8lmf (at) aol.com
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> UIpoint and APRSplus:
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