[aprssig] APRS Dieing?
Earl Needham
needhame1 at plateautel.net
Thu Sep 6 09:36:30 EDT 2007
At 06:27 AM 9/6/2007, J D Delancy wrote:
>
>Just drove a 1600 miles trip thru the midwest and back. APRS
>coverage thru Southern Ohio (except for Columbus), West Virginia and
>Western Maryland does not appear to "alive and well"
>
>Has anyone else noticed that?
Yes, I agree, some areas are leaving APRS. One about a
hundred miles from me is a real puzzler, it sounds like the whole
town just up and left 144.39.
There are also areas where I drive that have never had APRS
digi coverage.
Something else I've noticed, is that your mobile will work
just fine at home, but when you get 1000+ miles away, something about
the digis is different, and your mobile might not "see" any APRS
activity. This happened to me recently when I went to Atlanta. I
could hear the tones, they didn't sound like the tones I hear in
Texas and New Mexico, and my UI-View/KPC-3+ setup in the truck wasn't
able to put ANYTHING on the map. Other than myself, of course. When
I headed back west, it all started working again.
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Earl
KD5XB -- Earl Needham
Clovis, New Mexico DM84jk
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cw_bugs
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