[aprssig] weigh your toilet paper
Bob Bruninga
bruninga at usna.edu
Mon Dec 22 21:57:37 EST 2008
>> The chances of a thru hiker carrying an aprs
>> are zero. ... the more likely scenario is
>> friends of the trail allowing the hikers to check
>> in some how... a time clock type of system
>> to allow the hikers to use the system, but
>> not carry it.
Yes, the carry-aprs are the day hikers for fun. Or the SAR groups for serious. And I agree completely about the thru hikers.
My idea originally was a little check-point gizmo with a 2 line LCD display and keypad at each shelter or so, where the hiker enters his initials or trail name and it just dead-reckons him along the trail. THen around 2003, I re-wrote it to just be a copy of APRSdos running on an old $10 hamfest laptop... Its probably time to go back to the post-mounted keypad using a PIC and simple TIny-Track kind of XCVR.
FIndu would follow the dead reckoned track of the hikers generated by the fixed devices.
The details are on the page www.aprs.org/ham-trails.html
Bob, WB4APR
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