[aprssig] Omni DFing...

[Robert Bruninga]

>>> jdw at eng.uah.edu 05/11/06 10:35 AM >>>
>The DF plot web page has a May 9 date.  It's been 
>2 days and no one has pulled out an Arrow or 
>swung a beam around to get an actual bearing?

Yep, welcome to the real world of trying to get
ham radio operators to do routine DFing.  That is
exactly why we think that APRS with omni signal
strength plotting has so much more potential.

With signal strength reporting, 100% of everyone
with a radio can give an input from anywhere at
any time with his mobile, or HT or base station
or whatever.  AND, -not-hearing-it at one's location
is just as valuable a report as hearing it.

Waiting for the guys with beams is some times
too long.  And many times not worth the trouble
for routine traking down occasional signals.

>Omni DFing, APRS or otherwise, is fine if that's 
>all you've got, but the directional gear should be 
>out by now...

Maybe, maybe not.  If we call up those guys
for every little erroneous signal, they get burned
out..  Better to localize the source to about a mile
or so with ploting DFS signal reports first, so that
then you know where to send the DF hounds
next time the signal is heard.

See the new reports plotted today...
http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/dfing.html

Just need one person, anyone with a radio and
ears in Woodbridge to give a signal report and
that should get us closer...

Bob, WB4APR