[aprssig] APRS Clients Blackberry

[Duane Whittingham]

Thats good news, not on the waterlogged BB but the program.

Thanks, Duane
N9SSN


At 11:48 PM 8/24/2009, you wrote:
>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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