[aprssig] Thundering Silence

[Keith Kotch]

And I thought it was for lack of a formula.  :-)

Actual day of event + 1 day = Day late

Keith, KF4BXT




-----Original Message-----
From: aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org [mailto:aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org]
On Behalf Of VE7GDH
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 9:52 AM
To: aprssig at lists.tapr.org
Subject: Re: [aprssig] Thundering Silence

Bob WB4APR wrote on 30/05/2005

> With 300,000 motorcycles participating in the
> Rolling Thunder ride on the capital of Wash DC
> today it is disappointing not to see a single
> APRS bike.

Actually, 73 of them were hams and 12 had APRS on board. Of those, 5 had a 
path of RELAY,WIDE5-5 and were ignored because all of the digis and IGates 
had dropped support for RELAY. Another 4 used the same path, but they typed 
the path in while hitting a speed bump and mis-spelled it as REELAY,WIDE5-5.

The remaining 3 had actually adopted either WIDE2-2 or WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1 but 
going over the same speed bump that caused the typos in the path, a power 
connector for the radio became dislodged.