[aprssig] APRS on Field Day 2007

[gerheim at cox.net]

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---- "Wes Johnston wrote: 
> Why do it on 144.39?  The spirit of FD is emergency comms, so why not QSY
> and pretend that all the tall digipeaters were taken out by a disaster?....
> and using the d700s are mobile digipeaters is great!  We were able to fill
> in coverage of a motocross race by seeing the point on the track that we
> lost the gps tracker and parking a car with a d700 in it in that vicinity.
> Worked like a champ!
> Wes
> 
> 
> On 6/7/07, Robert Bruninga <bruninga at usna.edu> wrote:
> >
> > 4) APRS will be operated on 144.39 in the USA as a demonstration
> > station on RF ONLY. 100 demo Points will be awarded for an
> > operating APRS station that can capture at least 20 surrounding
> > APRS network participants and can exchange a two way-message
> > with at least three other manned stations.
> >
> > Here is the 2007 APRS field day WEB page:
> >
> > http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/aprs/fd2006.html
> >
> > Notice that ALL Kenwood D700 mobiles should be activated as
> > TEMPn-N digipeaters.  This will make a nice way to link into
> > 144.39 if needed and to see what we can do with this "permanent"
> > TEMPn-n alternate network capability...
> >
> > Did I miss anything?
> > Bob, WB4APR
> >
> >
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