[aprssig] In a nutshell?

[Eric H. Christensen]

A.J.,
How about we work on a website that is for newbies...  You can put in
information about your location and it will direct you to basic
settings for their APRS station, a way to sign up for the APRSSIG
directly (no TAPR website), and maybe some links to some of Bob's
sites and email addresses for good Elmers?  I'd be happy to help put
this together with help from some others.

73s,
Eric KF4OTN
kf4otn at amsat.org
http://www.ericsatcom.net

Project OSCAR Member
AMSAT-NA Member: 35360
AMSAT Eastern North Carolina Area Coordinator



-----Original Message-----
From: aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org
[mailto:aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org] On Behalf Of A.J. Farmer
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 16:28
To: 'TAPR APRS Mailing List'
Subject: RE: [aprssig] In a nutshell?


But there are already sites out there that recommend bad paths!  And
the sad thing is, it is easier to find those sites than it is to find
and join this list which is the best source of correct information
about APRS.  The signup page for this list on the TAPR site hasn't
worked for months.  

Has anyone looked at Bob's website guestbook lately?  It mostly
contains entry after entry of "hey, I'd like to use APRS, but I don't
know what to do"?  The link to add to the guestbook is near the
bottom of the page, so these people must be wading through all the
information available but still aren't finding the answers.  There is
a link to TAPR about joining this list, but guess what, IT DOESN'T
WORK!  I have mentioned the problem here before, I have e-mailed the
TAPR webmaster directly, but yet it falls on deaf ears.

How can we educate people about how to do things right, if we can't
even get the message out!?!

Getting down from soapbox now. ;-)

73!

A.J. Farmer, AJ3U
http://www.aj3u.com


-----Original Message-----
From: aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org
[mailto:aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org]
On Behalf Of Jason Winningham
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 3:14 PM
To: TAPR APRS Mailing List
Subject: Re: [aprssig] In a nutshell?


On Jan 6, 2005, at 12:06 PM, Sean Jewett wrote:

>
>> As soon as the LID crown realizes that WIDE,WIDE,WIDE,WIDE,WIDE
gets 
>> them as far as WIDE5-5 used to.
>
> Well, it's not like there's nothing to stop them now.

Right.  My personal theory is that if someone put up an "APRS web
page" 
that had five WIDEs (or even five RELAYs) as an example of "how to
make 
sure you show up on findu", it wouldn't take too long for us to see 
this on RF.  I hate to even put this in a message to the list,
because 
a google will find it in the list archives.

>   It would be nice to
> get some sort of digined smarts into say, UIDIGI to keep something 
> like that from being allowed,

Yep, and that's what started me down this twisty little path.

> On the other hand, I have a pile of Apple IIe's sitting at my place

> waiting for a project... they're fairly robust, but you'd all
question 
> my sanity.

Hey, there are days I wish for my Commodore 64 back.

-Jason
kg4wsv


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