[aprssig] APRS on Field Day 2007

[Wes Johnston, AI4PX]

Why do it on 144.39?  The spirit of FD is emergency comms, so why not QSY
and pretend that all the tall digipeaters were taken out by a disaster?....
and using the d700s are mobile digipeaters is great!  We were able to fill
in coverage of a motocross race by seeing the point on the track that we
lost the gps tracker and parking a car with a d700 in it in that vicinity.
Worked like a champ!
Wes


On 6/7/07, Robert Bruninga <bruninga at usna.edu> wrote:
>
> 4) APRS will be operated on 144.39 in the USA as a demonstration
> station on RF ONLY. 100 demo Points will be awarded for an
> operating APRS station that can capture at least 20 surrounding
> APRS network participants and can exchange a two way-message
> with at least three other manned stations.
>
> Here is the 2007 APRS field day WEB page:
>
> http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/aprs/fd2006.html
>
> Notice that ALL Kenwood D700 mobiles should be activated as
> TEMPn-N digipeaters.  This will make a nice way to link into
> 144.39 if needed and to see what we can do with this "permanent"
> TEMPn-n alternate network capability...
>
> Did I miss anything?
> Bob, WB4APR
>
>
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