[aprssig] Some Quick Impressions of the Dayton Hamvention 2007 -- APRS

[Stan, KC7EHJ]

Posted some APRS snapshots of the Dayton area and Hara Arena also at 
http://www.hharc.org/gallery/hamfest/index.php

We had a log file being generated from UI-View of all the activity from 
Friday to Sunday, last it was looked there were 310 APRS mobiles on RF 
within 30 miles of Dayton from Thursday noon to Sunday evening.  It got 
up to 14MGB in size when the computer locked up and thrashed the file 
and we could not retrieve the it.

Stan/KC7EHJ


Stephen H. Smith wrote:
> The 2007 Dayton Hamvention APRS forum on Saturday morning had an 
> overflow crowd of around 250.  A few pictures from the forum are  on my 
> website at:
> 
>      < http://wa8lmf.net/Dayton2007 >
> 
> Apparently the Hamvention organizers originally didn't want to provide a 
> room and time slot for an APRS forum because they though there wasn't 
> enough interest to justify it.  The crowd shown in my pictures should 
> put this belief to rest.
> 
> ===========
> 
> The non-debut of the much discussed and rumored new Kenwood TM-D710 
> replacement for the D700 was the major highlight (or was it low point?) 
> of the 2007 Dayton Hamvention.
> A prototype of the D710 was displayed but it was sequestered inside a 
> clear plastic display case. I'm not sure if it was a working prototype 
> or just a mockup.  Three Japanese representatives of Kenwood were 
> present but NONE of them seemed to be able to understand technical 
> questions or could answer in comprehensible English.     No literature 
> on the radio was available.
> 
> I was finally told that the D710 probably won't be available until early 
> fall.   No one could confirm whether the APRS firmware will be contained 
> in flashable memory for field upgrades.
> The radio main chassis is about the same height and width as the D700 
> but about an inch shorter.  The control head is significantly larger 
> than the D700's.  Unlike the D700,  the control head can be mated 
> directly to the main chassis without a cable.  In this mode the head 
> sticks up above the chassis in a manner similar to the TM-G707. 
> The wrong-sexed 9-pin serial port connector of the D700 has been 
> replaced with an 8-pin Min-DIN jack like the one used by older 
> Macintoshes for serial ports.
> ARRRRGH!!!  Apparently the color of the LCD panel can be changed.  One 
> of the two prototype/mockups on display had a orange LCD panel. The 
> other was a pale green.
> The reps seemed more interested in talking up, in mangled English, how 
> the radio was "Echolink ready" meaning it can store DTMF strings in 
> named memories, and had audio I/O ready to connect to an Echolink 
> interface; i.e. the STANDARD 6-pin Mini-DIN "packet/data" connector that 
> has always had audio input and output pins.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
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