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[picsig] Slight OT: Ham Radio Repeater Locator

David VanHorn dvanhorn at cedar.net
Tue Jul 27 02:37:31 UTC 2004


At 10:33 PM 7/26/2004 -0400, David Beach wrote:

>There is an interesting article in the August 2004 issue (Issue #169) of
>Circuit Cellar by Glen Worstell, KG0T, called 'Ham Radio Repeater Locator.
>It is a description of a device he constructed (using a Zilog Z8F6401, not a
>PIC, so I'm a bit off topic!) that will determine and display the eight
>nearest repeaters from its built-in database when connected to a GPS. It
>will also tune your rig to these stations. He uses it while travelling
>around the US. 

Cute! I grok Z8, at least a while ago I did. 
I might port this to an AVR, and my TM-V7A. 





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