[aprssig] Future Concept for APRS (NOT Tracking only)

[Randy Allen]

You don't have to actually read the text of a message for it to be useful.

1. Both of our radios (mine and wife) have the voice chip.  So I can 
send a message to her such as %145.11 and she will hear who it is from 
and what frequency to go to for voice follow up.

2.  My wife often (almost always) turns down the voice side of her D-700 
as she isn't in to the normal repeater chatter.  I keep a message to her 
in my radio's message buffer.  During the time I'm stopped at a light I 
can bring it up and hit RE-TX. When she hears an incoming message from 
me (ID'd by the voice chip) she knows to turn up the voice side.

(Another variant of this is using Voice Alert.  When she hears a packet 
she turns up the voice side)

3. My daughter has her amateur license and is years from her drivers 
license, so she can operate the messaging when riding with my wife or I.

4. The voice chip allows me assess any incoming message by it's source 
and I can decide if I need to pull over to read it now or if it can wait 
for the next light, stop, etc.

Just a few ways that the messaging is useful to me on a regular basis, 
and used in a way that does not constitute a driving hazard.

73 to all

Randy

Earl Needham wrote:
> Try answering some of it at 75 MPH. 
> 
> 7 3
> 
> ------Original Message------
> From: Bob Bruninga
> Sender: aprssig-bounces at tapr.org
> To: 'TAPR APRS Mailing List'
> ReplyTo: Bob Bruninga
> ReplyTo: TAPR APRS Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [aprssig] Future Concept for APRS (NOT Tracking only)
> Sent: Sep 21, 2009 17:12
> 
>> "The FUTURE is seeing APRS in every mobile 
>> including what every modern communicator is 
>> handy with.. That is text messaging.  It
>> works and works well in all aspects of human 
>> operations."
>>
>> Well it doesn't work worth a DARN while 
>> you're driving -- which is where most APRS is done. 
> 
> I donno, my primary use of text messaging is RECEIVEING and
> displaying the information on my head's up dissplay.  I get
> notices, info, activitites, meeting announcemnets, satellites in
> view, local repeater frequencies, local IRLP and Echolink
> frequencies, and just about anything I need to know anywhere in
> ham radio right there on my dashboard within my driving line of
> sight.
> 
> TO me, that works DARN well.
> 
> And it is locally RELEVANT no matter where I am traveling.
> 
> Bob, Wb4APR
> 
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Randy Allen, KAØAZS