[aprssig] Police-9/10 station

Pierre Thibaudeau ve2prt at sympatico.ca
Thu Jun 19 14:59:57 EDT 2008


Today, 14:13 -0400, Robert Bruninga wrote:

>    In this case, to transmit a "thing" in the Mic-E format used by
>    the kenwoods, one has to place the "thing's" name into the
>    callsign field, and then add one's ownership info in the text
>    part of the packet.  People with mobile ARPS radios are usually
>    the first to see an incident or thing that needs reporting to
>    everyone else.

I understand the limitations imposed by some setups.

One feature that I find "objects" useful for is the possibility to "kill" 
them (";POLICE-9 _") so that it immediately disappears on everyone's 
display when they are no longer relevant.

Yes, my view is biased by the fact that I do not do APRS without a 
computer.

'73 - Pierre
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Pierre Thibaudeau




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