[aprssig] APRS data dump for a month or two

[scott at opentrac.org]

I probably have every packet that's passed through my Igate for the last
couple of years, but it's split between quite a few log files.  And since I
switched to Xastir, I don't think it's logging anymore.

Scott
N1VG 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org 
> [mailto:aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org] On Behalf Of James 
> Jefferson Jarvis
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 3:45 PM
> To: apratt at bestbits.org; aprssig at lists.tapr.org
> Subject: Re: [aprssig] APRS data dump for a month or two
> 
> Go ahead and grab it all as fast as you can! That machine is 
> on an internet2 
> connection, so it has way more bandwidth than you have :-)
> 
> There appears to be about 4.9 gigabytes of position data 
> going back to 
> December of 2003. That's in gzip -9 form, so expect this to 
> use a lot of disk 
> space. Probably at least 50 gigabytes. :-)
> 
> I would imagine that by looking at all of that data you'll 
> get a pretty good 
> picture of what APRS coverage is in California. It might even 
> be neat to make 
> some graphics and show how APRS coverage has changed over the 
> last two years.
> 
> I'm not aware of anyone that has a long term database of 
> every single packet 
> available for use. I purge my raw packets fairly regularly 
> and my position 
> data gets purged at least every 6 months. 
> 
> -Jim KB0THN
> 
> 
> On Thursday 04 May 2006 17:24, Allan Pratt wrote:
> > Before I go pulling every hour of every day of a couple of months'
> > worth of archive, I want to ask: is this going to be OK? Will that
> > kind of data transfer cause excess-bandwidth charges or something?
> > Should I schedule it at night, or a little at a time?
> 
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