*** ANNOUNCEMENT ***

We will have a little VOICE competition for the coming weeks:

1 point for each APRS message you get spoken by RAFT or ANDE 2 points for each message to another HAM you get spoken by RAFT & ANDE

Examples: "W3ADO says talk to me" will give 1 point "DK3WN says Hello Europe" will give 1 point "PE1ITR says DK3WN 59" will give 2 points

Enrollment: - email the mp3 recording to pa3guo @ amsat.org (max 200kb, edit yourself !) - attach a picture of yourself/shack/station (optional, pls keep filesize small) - include the digipeated packet & timestamp (to identify RAFT or ANDE) example for a packet spoken by ANDE: 20070210005858 : W3ADO-15]APRS,ANDE-1*,qAO,W3ADO::TALK :talk to me

I will post all results on the VOICE Competition URL: http://home.vianetworks.nl/users/hamoen/pa3guo/voice.html

As this is only for fun we will have an initial end date of March 1st, but let's see !

Please note that ANDE needs to be enabled first by a command station in your footprint each pass, so monitor: http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/pcsat.cgi

RAFT does not need that and is continuesly in VOICE mode these days.

On the VOICE Competition URL (see above) you find details on how to operate the voice mode.

Good luck - looking forward to the first VOICE reports !

Henk, PA3GUO