[aprssig] TEMPn-N for Field Day

[Home Andy]

I setup at the Palo Alto Amateur Radio Association site in Menlo Park, CA
N37 d 29.54 m, W122 d 10.18m. Right on the bay, great for HF but bad for
VHF.  I got two stations and they were using RELAY, TEMP.  Internal to the
site the system worked fine using my HT and one or two other APRS stations
on-site.  I even "cross-frequency'd" between 145.01 and 144.39.

Basically not a lot of interest even though I advertised quite extensively
and we have a large user base.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robbie, wa9inf" <mwrobertson at comcast.net>
To: "TAPR APRS Mailing List" <aprssig at lists.tapr.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: [aprssig] TEMPn-N for Field Day


> Bob es group,
>
> I set up a TEMP digipeater with my base station on 145.010, as well as
> the TEMP1-1,TEMP7-7 demo APRS station at the North Shore Radio Club FD
> site, as well my TMD-700 mobile TEMP1-1 Fill digi on 145.010..  There
> were three stations plotted on my UI-View32 map. NS9RC FD, KE9LN
> Palatine, IL FD, and my wa9inf-1 mobile! I exchanged a couple messages
> with KE9LN.
>
> Very poor demo, but great interest when I filled up the map on the
> 144.390 channel...
>
> My observations led me to beleive that it wasn't the lack of interest in
> APRS, it was more the competitive attitude towards CW and SSB contacts.
> The general public was a lot more interested in the map displays, the
> messageing cababilities I think than the CW idea. SSB also was more
> interesting to the spectators... Especially the Emergency SAR,
> assistance knowing where the "units" were and so forth got a lot of
> attention... I also ran a couple power point shows when I got their
> attention rather than just answering off the hip questions..
>
> Robbie
>
> Robert Bruninga wrote:
>
> >Did anyone do this TEMPn-N thing for FD?
> >I was on travel and missed FIeld Day completely and
> >in this area, 10" of rain over the weekend pretty
> >much put a damper on everything else...  Does anyone
> >have anything to report on the TEMPn-N experiment?
> >
> >Bob
> >
> >
> >>>>wa7nwp at jnos.org 06/22/06 12:00 PM >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >
> >Is anybody at all thinking about setting up a TEMPn-N setup for
> >Field Day?
> >
> >I was suggesting 144.99 but now I think that with the minimal
> >use that we'd be better off trying 145.01 or 144.35 and using
> >the existing digi's there.  Not completely kosher with the FD
> >rules but I won't tell if nobody else does.
> >
> >73
> >Bill - WA7NWP
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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