[aprssig] APRS in daily use

[Guido Trentalancia]

Hello William !

On Sun, 20/02/2011 at 20.18 -0500, William McKeehan wrote:
> In East Tennessee, we have found APRS to be very valuable for special events,
> but the interest and activity drops off dramatically between those events.
> 
> We have a weekly voice net on which we discuss APRS; I'd like to present some
> suggestions there about how APRS can bring value to your every day life.
> 
> I'm struggling to identify the things for which APRS is ideal for every day
> life, so I turn to this group for ideas.
> 
> Do you use APRS daily? Why? How do you use it and what value do you get from it?

This is an example of something that I do every day with APRS:

http://iz6rdb.ampr.org/en/aprs_on_demand.html

So, disseminate various kinds of useful information on demand. Such
information is either locally generated or extrapolated from public web
resources.

I'd like to provide other information as well, but it's not very easy to
find public resources that are of common interest and which at the same
time have a license that allows content re-distribution.

The most useful thing amongst those that I have implemented is, in my
opinion, the APRS emergency monitoring function. I will try to implement
more services with time.

73,

Guido IZ6RDB