From bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Mon Feb 14 09:57:20 2000 Received: from lists.tapr.org (lists.tapr.org [204.17.217.24]) by tapr.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/1.13) with SMTP id JAA14640 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 09:57:19 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 01:16:03 -0500 (EST) From: wa4ikq@nevets.oau.org (Geoffrey Dick) To: "APRS Announcements" Subject: [aprsnews] Orlando APRS Dinner on 2/12/2000 List-Unsubscribe: List-Software: Lyris Server version 3.0 List-Subscribe: List-Owner: X-List-Host: Tucson Amateur Packet Radio Reply-To: "APRS Announcements" X-Message-Id: Sender: bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Precedence: bulk Subject: ORLANDO APRS Dinner on Feb. 13, 2000 First, I want to thank Steve Dimse (K4HG), Keith Sproul (WU2G), Steve Bible (N7HPR), Warren Merkle (KD4ZDD), and Paul Drothler (WO4U), for their fine presentations, and TAPR for their support to make this event a major success for a second year in a row. We had 65 in attendance at the dinner. KD4ZDD presented his homebrew PIC GPS Display for a Motorola Encore GPS & MIC-E. WO4U briefed us on ARES/RACES APRS activity in his home State of Tennessee. K4HG gave us a heads up on the 4th Annual Digital Communications Conference (DCC 2000) coming to Orlando on the 3rd week in September. Steve also gave us background and his efforts on loading 600K pages on the server @map.aprs.net to allow the aprs query feature to perform. WU2Z came equipped with two laptops, and his projection machine to brief us some new rotor track, and email lookup-from-callsign features on MacPARS and WinAPRS. His brother, Mark, is working on a lightweight directory at this time. Steve demonstrated the Kenwood TH-D7A with a new voice chip, and passed a few pointers and some cardboard lifesize photomockups of the new TM-700 mobile APRS radio display to "try for size" on our dashboards. N7HPR gave us a brief history of TAPR, which is a "member-supported research and development non-profit corporation". Like many of those present, I was surprised to learn that TAPR is not in Tucson, was incorporated in Arizona, and is now based in Texas. We also learned TAPR is a 'select' special interest group in amateur radio, having origins from IEEE. It now has 2000 members, 10% are overseas. Steve Bible also gave a user seminar on the PIC-E, showing how to program it for simple TNC functions to beacon weather station packets, or a tracker. The PIC-E has a 16F84 with flash memory that performs serial in, packet out. He also explained how the MIC-E contained additional features of activating though the microphone, and had convenient user switches to change beaconing. We were also shown PocketAPRS on a Palm IIIx. It now uses WinPARS maps. KC4MY and AE4KO took home TAPR CD door prizes. Nick, KF4BYA, Florida State student, won the grand door prize, a TAPR PIC-E. Nick told us afterward that he might let his Dad, KF4BXT, do assembly the kit, but he will have to program it. We had a great weekend with superb weather, a good turnout of of vendors, tailgates, and great crowd at Orlando HamCation(sm). This was the second time I could ever remember when the giant free parking area became so filled at the fairgrounds, that they had to open up the auxiliary soccer field to park cars on Saturday. Digital radio had good representation, with Keith manning the APRS booth, and Steve & Steve manning the TAPR booth, next to AMSAT. Bill Peet of Peet Bros made a wise choice this time with an expanded display area and a number of assistants to handle a romping business of selling weather stations. Kenwood was there with their giant commercial backdrop diplay of radios. By 3pm Saturday, all of the dealers at the hamfest sold their entire inventory of the new TM-D700. My only criticism of the dinner forum is we had to endure the sounds of the restaurant, in a semi-enclosed conference room. The food, service, and comfortable seats seemed to compensate for this slight inconvenience. If we do this again, I will try to remember to bring a PA system of some type. Geoffrey Dick, wa4ikq@nevets.oau.org --- Do not REPLY to APRSNEWS. Instead, send replies to the originator of the message, i.e., the email address in the FROM: field. --- You are currently subscribed to aprsnews as: lyris.aprsnews@tapr.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-aprsnews-839E@lists.tapr.org From bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Fri Feb 18 19:47:24 2000 Received: from lists.tapr.org (lists.tapr.org [204.17.217.24]) by tapr.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/1.13) with SMTP id TAA10544 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 19:47:23 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: arctic.usna.edu: bruninga owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 19:47:14 -0500 (EST) From: Bob Bruninga X-Sender: bruninga@arctic To: "APRS Announcements" cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [aprsnews] APRStk ver K04 posted Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Unsubscribe: List-Software: Lyris Server version 3.0 List-Subscribe: List-Owner: X-List-Host: Tucson Amateur Packet Radio Reply-To: "APRS Announcements" X-Message-Id: Sender: bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Precedence: bulk APRStk combines APRS monitoring, Satellite Tracking, and Automatic radio tuning for the Kenwood data radios so your old DOS PC in the corner can keep you informed of everything that is going on on your local APRS frequency and any of the digital or FM satellites. This latest version K04 fixes the bug that limited automatic tuning to only the HT. Now either the handheld THD7 or the TM-D700 can be used. de WB4APR Normal upgrade: ftp://tapr.org/aprssig/dosstuff/APRSdos/astk-exe.zip Complete install: ftp://tapr.org/aprssig/dosstuff/APRSdos/aprstk.zip Always install with PKUNZIP -dn or WinZIP. --- Do not REPLY to APRSNEWS. Instead, send replies to the originator of the message, i.e., the email address in the FROM: field. --- You are currently subscribed to aprsnews as: lyris.aprsnews@tapr.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-aprsnews-839E@lists.tapr.org From bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Tue Feb 22 11:58:10 2000 Received: from lists.tapr.org (lists.tapr.org [204.17.217.24]) by tapr.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/1.13) with SMTP id LAA24120 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 11:58:07 -0600 (CST) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: mcmusick@mail.anet-stl.com Message-Id: Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 11:53:39 -0600 To: "APRS Announcements" From: Mike Musick Subject: [aprsnews] Important Palm/Visor News List-Unsubscribe: List-Software: Lyris Server version 3.0 List-Subscribe: List-Owner: X-List-Host: Tucson Amateur Packet Radio Reply-To: "APRS Announcements" X-Message-Id: Sender: bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Precedence: bulk Three items important to the pocketAPRS users in the crowd: Palm IIIc Announced Today ========================= The IIIc is the first color Palm. Slightly taller (1/4") than a regular Palm III, the IIIc also features a rechargable battery and 8MB of RAM, plus a new Palm OS, v3.5. Price is $449, but a few web discounters are in the $390 range. Availability is the second week of March. I had the good fortune to be invited to a developer preview of the IIIc a few weeks ago (sorry to be mum 'til now - I was bound by a Non-Disclosure Agreement). The display quality is outstanding, and a special color version of pocketAPRS ran with no sweat. The great thing for APRS users about the IIIc is that it has the ability for fulltime external power without a lot of hystrionics. Power supply is a "normal" 5VDC, and all regulation for handling the rechargable battery is built into the device itself (and not externally like it is on the Palm V!). Battery life running pocketAPRS is expected to be very close to the Palm V, at 9-12 hours per charge. Primary remaining question is how readable the display will be in full sun. We weren't allowed to wander outside with 'em. ;-) At the moment it looks like there will have to be a separate version of pocketAPRS for OS 3.5 Palms. It appears that there is no way to combine the grayscale functions of the OS 3.0 to 3.3 devices with the grayscale and color functions of OS 3.5 into the same program. Grayscale was not "officially" supported in Palms before OS 3.5, and now comes time to pay the piper for doing it anyway. US Map with Interstates ======================= With a big "Thanks!" to Brent Bolen, N6GPS, we now have a new map of the US which includes the Interstate highway system. It is available at: ftp://ftp.tapr.org//aprssig/palmstuff/palmmaps/USIROADS.ZIP The map will look a little "clunky" at the full view due to a poor decision on my part about line drawing; this will be corrected in the next version of the program. Making the Handspring Visor Work with RS-232 ============================================ The research of several Visor users has been combined into an information page with diagrams and illustrations: http://www.pocketaprs.com/visor.html My sincere thanks to everyone who unselfishly committed time and resources to solve this trying little puzzle. ...mike/N0QBF ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pocketAPRS - APRS for the Palm Connected Organizer Website: http://www.pocketaprs.com Application: ftp://ftp.tapr.org//aprssig/palmstuff/palmaprs/pcktaprs.zip Map Files: ftp://ftp.tapr.org//aprssig/palmstuff/palmmaps/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Do not REPLY to APRSNEWS. Instead, send replies to the originator of the message, i.e., the email address in the FROM: field. --- You are currently subscribed to aprsnews as: lyris.aprsnews@tapr.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-aprsnews-839E@lists.tapr.org From bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Wed Feb 23 09:12:07 2000 Received: from lists.tapr.org (lists.tapr.org [204.17.217.24]) by tapr.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/1.13) with SMTP id JAA20702 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 09:12:07 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: arctic.usna.edu: bruninga owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 10:04:51 -0500 (EST) From: Bob Bruninga X-Sender: bruninga@arctic To: "APRS Announcements" Subject: [aprsnews] Satellites Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Unsubscribe: List-Software: Lyris Server version 3.0 List-Subscribe: List-Owner: X-List-Host: Tucson Amateur Packet Radio Reply-To: "APRS Announcements" X-Message-Id: Sender: bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Precedence: bulk New Satellite Excitement for the Mobile FM or APRS Traveler/user. 1) SUNSAT is now transitting a pre-recorded VOICE on 145.825 during todays passes. The signal is dead full quieting on any 2m FM receiver. Next (last pass) is at 23:32 EST (20:32 PST) tonight (wed). 2) UO-14 was enabled for VOICE just like AO-27 last night. So add it to your tracking list. Uplink is 145.975 and downlink is 435.070 FM! This triples the on-orbit FM satellite voice capabilities. 3) If you have 9600 baud APRS capability (either of the kenwood radios), contact me for additional APRS details... If you use APRStk, then you will need to use an editor to copy/add AO14 to your LEO.ORB file.. Just copy any satellite in the file, and change its name to UO14 and object number to 20437. Then run APRStk and do INPUT-KEPS-2 to update from a NASA file. THen let it read THIS email and it will update AO14. Here are the keps for AO14 it will find: UO-14 1 20437U 90005B 00045.20267328 .00000444 00000-0 18722-3 0 5170 2 20437 98.4275 116.2738 0010114 221.5545 138.4850 14.30322319525146 All of these satellites demonstrate how easy it is to operate satellites mobile. I hope it is a trend that will help the mobile APRS traveler... de WB4APR, Bob DETAILS: If you are new to satellites, remember the excitement here is that a mobile has no significant coax loss, and so needs no preamps. THus you can hear better than any home station, and for satelites you dont need to be on a hill! Your HT in your hand will hear much better than any radio in your shack (without preamps that is)... --- Do not REPLY to APRSNEWS. Instead, send replies to the originator of the message, i.e., the email address in the FROM: field. --- You are currently subscribed to aprsnews as: lyris.aprsnews@tapr.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-aprsnews-839E@lists.tapr.org From bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Thu Feb 24 07:29:29 2000 Received: from lists.tapr.org (lists.tapr.org [204.17.217.24]) by tapr.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/1.13) with SMTP id HAA19917 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 07:29:28 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: From: "Thomas Perry" To: "APRS Announcements" References: Subject: [aprsnews] Re: Satellites Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 17:38:06 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 List-Unsubscribe: List-Software: Lyris Server version 3.0 List-Subscribe: List-Owner: X-List-Host: Tucson Amateur Packet Radio Reply-To: "APRS Announcements" X-Message-Id: <00ac01bf7e67$cdb53780$4219f4d8@computer> Sender: bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Precedence: bulk What news do you have for the TM-D700A??? ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Bruninga To: APRS Announcements Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 7:04 AM Subject: [aprsnews] Satellites > 3) If you have 9600 baud APRS capability (either of the kenwood radios), > contact me for additional APRS details... --- Do not REPLY to APRSNEWS. Instead, send replies to the originator of the message, i.e., the email address in the FROM: field. --- You are currently subscribed to aprsnews as: lyris.aprsnews@tapr.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-aprsnews-839E@lists.tapr.org From bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Tue Feb 29 12:32:10 2000 Received: from lists.tapr.org (lists.tapr.org [204.17.217.24]) by tapr.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/1.13) with SMTP id MAA07419 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 12:32:07 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: arctic.usna.edu: bruninga owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 13:18:21 -0500 (EST) From: Bob Bruninga X-Sender: bruninga@arctic To: "APRS Announcements" cc: TAPR APRS Special Interest Group , aprsnews@tapr.org Subject: [aprsnews] Central America Maps (dos) In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20000223214634.00941250@globalnet.hn> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Unsubscribe: List-Software: Lyris Server version 3.0 List-Subscribe: List-Owner: X-List-Host: Tucson Amateur Packet Radio Reply-To: "APRS Announcements" X-Message-Id: Sender: bounce-aprsnews-839@lists.tapr.org Precedence: bulk The Maps of Central America are now complete (APRSdos). The new posting includes a 512 mile overall map which gives some roads and labels at the larger scale to be useful until you zoom below 16 miles. It is about 500K at ftp://tapr.org/aprssig/dossutff/APRSdos/camerica.zip If anyone decides to play with MAPFIX40 and improve the roads, labels, or whatever, please feeed back changes to me. Thanks. de WB4APR, Bob --- Do not REPLY to APRSNEWS. Instead, send replies to the originator of the message, i.e., the email address in the FROM: field. --- You are currently subscribed to aprsnews as: lyris.aprsnews@tapr.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-aprsnews-839E@lists.tapr.org