[aprssig] APRS vs. SPOT

[Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)]

Not Amateur Radio, but a commercial product with $$$ to back it up 
instead of volunteers providing an ad-hoc infrastructure.  And it's also 
not hampered by backward compatibility issues with 7+ year old 
non-upgradable software running on at least 14% of the stations active 
worldwide (including statistics dilution by CWOP and Firenet stations) 
within the past two hours.

Not even worth comparing nor discussing on an APRS sig, IMHO.  But I'll 
keep my delete button warmed up just in case.

Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32

PS.  http://www.findmespot.com/en/

On 9/7/2011 11:23 AM, Jim Alles wrote:
> whats SPOT?
>
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:20 AM, <AA3JY at winlink.org 
> <mailto:AA3JY at winlink.org>> wrote:
>
>     Watching some of the subscribers on SPOT put out consistent
>     tracking just about anywhere in the US, Canada, Mexico..so why
>     can't APRS  come even close!?! Also dollar for dollar..it's
>     cheaper to do SPOT...
>
>     Let flames begin...
>
>     Clay AA3JY
>
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