[aprssig] UP Steam Train 3985/844

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Jim Duncan wrote:

> Is the train itself transmitting the tracking information or is this
> someone uplinking an object? Being a railfan and knowing that 3985 is
> heading this way later this Spring I'd like to be able to track it locally.

It must be transmitting the info via some other system 'cuz their
UP web page gets updated pretty regularly.

I just web-scrape their page via Perl, create an APRS object, then
inject it into Firenet and/or APRS-IS (don't recall which, perhaps
both).

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