[aprssig] WIDE4-4 comments

[Mark Earle]

Earl,

Well, I was surprised totally that Bob had a mostly positive thing to 
say about your state!! He usually can find nothing good to say about how 
someone other than himself operates APRS. ;-)

WE in TX sometimes use long paths on purpose - the goal is NOT to get to 
the internet, but to watch others moving around several hundreds of 
miles away - where 3 or 4 mobiles have full computers and maps.

At the moment though, I'm not a car computer station - just a tracker.

Take care,

de Mark WA2MCT/5 Corpus Christi TX EL17HQ

Earl Needham wrote:
> At 13:58 11/8/2007, Cap Pennell wrote:
>> I'd suggest courteous modern ops could set WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1 mobile 
>> (here too,
>> as elsewhere) and do as well, just fine.  Why join our too-self-absorbed
>> "spammers"?
>> 73, Cap
> 
>         Where are you located, Cap?  There are a few places in New 
> Mexico where the extra hops are necessary, and quite a few where no 
> amount of hops will get you to another live op.  We might want to do a 
> detailed analysis of the whole state before calling somebody a 
> "too-self-absorbed spammer".
> 
>         We've had this discussion before, more than once, and the 
> general idea is that people in the big cities all think they know better 
> that WE do how to operate our stations out in the sticks.
> 
>         7 3
>         Earl
> 
> KD5XB -- Earl Needham
> Clovis, New Mexico DM84jk
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cw_bugs
> Quoting from the Coast Guard: ZUT 


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