[aprssig] Kansas APRS SAR?

[Philip Leonard WVØT]

WV0T-9 went online on August 6th 1994.

Philip

Jim Duncan wrote:
> KU0G (your humble responder) was User #1 in the Kansas City area, first 
> going on-the-air in January, 1993. That was soon followed by the 
> installation of Kansas City's first WIDE (WV0T-9). Mike Rosenbloom 
> (N0GGU) and another ham related to him (I think it was his dad but don't 
> hold me to that) already had a system of four WIDES covering the area 
> from Graham, MO, well up into Iowa. We all got together and discussed 
> how best to cover the primary highways to allow a mobile to pick up 
> coverage from the next WIDE just as he would be running out of the 
> coverage circle of the last one. From those plans grew the first 
> "coordination" of APRS Digipeaters (anywhere in the U.S. that I'm aware 
> of).