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[ao16aprs] AO16/LU19/IO26 Renewed TRAKNET Interest
- To: "TAPR AO-16 APRS Special Interest Group" <ao16aprs@lists.tapr.org>
- Subject: [ao16aprs] AO16/LU19/IO26 Renewed TRAKNET Interest
- From: Bob Bruninga <bruninga@nadn.navy.mil>
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 12:52:01 -0400 (EDT)
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With the loss of MIR as the only AX.25 digipeater in space for wilderness
travelers and off-shore sailors to digipeat their Position/Status, there
is renewed interest in using the AO-16, LU-19 and IO-26 1200 baud AX.25
digipeaters for brief UI packet reporting.
The transmit side is trivial (a $3 mod to any TAPR-2 type TNC). Thus,
anyone with a 5 watt or more mobile rig can report. All we
have ever needed are a few automated UHF PSK downlink stations to digipeat
these packets back into the worldwide APRServe distribution system.
There are several recent things making this application more viable:
1) The pending shut down of MIR digipeater
2) More interest worldwide in APRS UI position/status reporting
3) Steve Bible's work on a universal PIC manchester transmitter
4) A possible student project at my school to do the daily downlink
tracking until we can automate it...
5) A surprise announcement (from an author) coming soon...
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To learn more: http://web.usna.navy.mil/~bruninga/traknet.html
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