[aprssig] Omni DFing...

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I don't get it.

I understand having people say "I hear that bad boy at X strength here
in BugTussle"

I don't understand at all what that has to do with my power output
nor how APRS fits in the picture except as a way to do the mapping.

Maybe I can read through it a couple of times and see if it makes
sense in the morning.

Chris Howard
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On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 18:17 -0400, Robert Bruninga wrote:
> >>> 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
> 
> 
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