[aprssig] Q: Voice Alert freqs around the world?

[Wes Johnston, AI4PX]

On the subject of voice alert, I have a good and a bad story....  The good)
KC4PL and I often use voice alert to "hail" one another.  Works really
well.  The bad) I left my radio on pinging away every 2 minutes while
running inside a store the other day (ie radio unattended).  KI4PKL got off
work and heard my pings and thus noticed I was nearby. He was able to drive
to me and give me something we'd been meaning to exchange.

We call it the hailing frequency.

Wes
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We are learning a lot more about Chicago-style politics than I ever wanted.


On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 08:45, Bob Bruninga <bruninga at usna.edu> wrote:

> >>> since the whole goal of Voice Alert
> >>> is to find each other...
> >>
> >> Is somebody really using this?...
>
> > Yup.. actually just got a call because
> > of it about 20 mins ago when driving home.
>
> On the other hand, last weekend I drove from Maryland to Connecticut and
> heard at least 10, COUNT-EM (10), or so Voice Alert packets in different
> areas and got NO response from ANY of them.  Seems the lights are on , the
> CQ's are going out, but no one is listening up there...
>
> Similarly frustrating, we have a group of people in my area that are very
> actively working on a 6 meter APRS network and so there is a vibrant need to
> communicate and talk about stuff.  But the number one proponent drives
> around with a car full of radios but only APRS dumb trackers, and so when I
> chance to see him nearby, even visiting the digi site to work on it,
> occassionally, it is so frustrating not to be able to call him, because he
> is ONE-WAY APRS!
>
> We've got to break this mentality of APRS as a one-way vehicle tracking
> system for the web only...
>
> Bob, WB4APR
>
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