[aprssig] Bogus Voice Alert was Re: Connecticut Trip report

[Tom Russo]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 07:03:20PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <esarfl at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:02, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> >
> > You think that's annoying --- imagine my surprise while staying in Fort Collins,
> > Colorado when I found that nearly every station was running Voice Alert. ??Or
> > at least it appeared that way until I realized that most of them were really
> > far away and couldn't possibly be in simplex range. ??In fact all that VA noise
> > was because the nearest digipeater has 100Hz PL on transmit...
> 
> I have just investigated this. I don't notice any local digipeaters
> transmitting a 100Hz tone. However, W0UPS-5 transmits an 88.5Hz tone.
> It's possible this has been changed recently to avoid conflicts with
> voice alert.

Maybe.  W0UPS-5 sounds familiar.

Last time I was in Fort Collins, it was in a vehicle with no radio.  It's
been some time since I heard it last (possibly last summer).  Could be that 
someone contacted them since my last visit and got it changed.

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