[aprssig] APRS Road Trip

[Steve Noskowicz]

  Kevin,

I took a look and saw this trip (and probably more):

http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/track.cgi?call=VE7WHK-14&start=9999&geo=usa.geo

(Don't know the geo filename for Canada)

Also your messages.

http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/msg.cgi?call=VE7WHK-14

Fun, isn't it.  I just recently started learning about APRSLink email.  More complex, but two-way capability.

  Do you use a keyboard?

-- 
73, Steve, K9DCI


--- On Fri, 9/19/08, Kevin Deckert <kdeckert at telus.net> wrote:

> From: Kevin Deckert <kdeckert at telus.net>
> Subject: [aprssig] APRS Road Trip
> To: aprssig at lists.tapr.org
> Date: Friday, September 19, 2008, 7:43 AM
> My D710 and my pathfinder recently made a road trip form
> central British 
> Columbia, Down through Idaho ,Utah,Colorado,Wyoming,
> Montana, back into BC. 
> 6,200 kilometers
> APRS was a lot f fun. I am from the mythical land where
> cell phone coverage 
> does not work.
> I was in what I thought where some remote locations along
> the way and yet my 
> D710 told me my beacon was making a repeater. I used the
> email capacity 
> several times to send mesages to family in england and in
> colorado. I gave 
> my son the findu link so as I was nearing his house in
> boulder he was 
> monitoring my progress on the internet.
> When I drove down his street he and his wife where standing
> outside. It was 
> proof to me of how well it works.
> I am actually a real Tracker.  I physically follow the sign
> left by missing 
> persons for search and rescue.
> I demonstarted some simple abilities of APRS at a tracking
> class in 
> colorado. It drew alot of attention.
> 
>     My intent for this message is to thank all those Digi
> peater operators 
> and those who maintian remote sites in some challenging
> locations. It is 
> they who make APRS an amazing tool.
> Many listed repeater frequencies in thier beacons and this
> was very useful,
> I met one APRS operator in montana  who was running UI View
> on an old 
> highway patrol mobile.He saw me 'sneaking' up on
> him on the hightway.
> What a fun way to travel..
> Kevin Deckert, VE7WHK
> Emergency Coordinator
> Wells Gray Country ARES
> kdeckert at telus.net
> 
> Journeyman Tracker
> JHPTS
> http://www.jhardin-inc.com