You have to admire Bob. No matter what you are doing, from the mundane to exotic, he has found a way for aprs to be an integral part. Maybe he should have been a salesman instead of a teacher...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Nate Duehr" nate@natetech.com To: bruninga@usna.edu; "'AMSAT-BB'" AMSAT-BB@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 7:55 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Tracking Friends at Dayton..
On Wed, 13 May 2009 16:43:56 -0400, "Robert Bruninga" bruninga@usna.edu said:
This year you can use your DTMF HT to report where you are hanging out at the Hamvention to about 120 feet just by sending two digits for your XY coordinate.
LOL...
If I were going to be there, I'm going to say via that same HT...
"I'm standing in front of the Brautwurst stand."
Faster than looking myself up on an arbitrary map, punching digits, hoping my friend has the map...
Cool idea, but not sure what problem it's a solution for? I guess if I broke my mic?
Plus, 120' often isn't high enough "resolution". I've stood one stall away from someone in the flea market looking for them before. :-)
Oh well, don't mean to be nitpicky -- have fun at Dayton, all. Even this would be "fun" I guess... I don't know... that's stretching it a bit.
FUN... is finding the repeater or other project parts you need... and knowing you have a way to get them home! (GRIN)
Nate WY0X
Nate Duehr nate@natetech.com
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