[aprssig] APRS Clients Blackberry

[Matthew Asham/BCWNS]

Just a brief update on the status of this project.   

A working prototype was tested a few weeks ago during a road trip
(http://aprs.fi/?call=VE7UDP-1&dt=1249171200&mt=m&z=11&timerange=3600),
however the project's development is presently delayed while my Curve
gets itself repaired.  

It developed an affinity for swimming, and a couple of months later has
developed some "issues" rendering it all but useless.  No ETA atm, but
I'm hoping soonish.

'73 Matthew - VE7UDP.


On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 15:44 -0700, Matthew Asham/BCWNS wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 11:43 -0700, Tom Hayward wrote:
> > > There is a problem with cell phone implementation of a traditional APRS
> > > client. You need to stay connected in order to continuously parse the
> > > incoming data.
> > 
> > This problem could be mitigated by the application connecting to a
> > history feed. I'm not aware of a bi-directional history feed though,
> > so it would need to connect to a normal port for posting posits.
> > 
> > I have some friends who would be interested in a Blackberry APRS
> > client (don't have one myself). Any Blackberry programmers on the
> > list?
> 
> It's been on the edge of my radar for a while now.  What I had in mind
> was a service monitoring aprs-is and collecting information that the BB
> would periodically poll.  This is more or less how the web aprs app I
> wrote for bcwireless.net works and allows for "offline" message
> reception.
> 
> I could be convinced to spare some cycles on such a project provided
> there's sufficient interest and little duplication of effort (time's is
> precious).  My general BB target is OS 4.5 and not the fancy touch
> features of the Storm.
> 
> '73 Matthew VE7UDP
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