[aprssig] Solar Plane: Leg 4: Flight St. Louis - Washington - Friday!

[Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)]

On 6/14/2013 10:32 AM, Robert Bruninga wrote:
> A laborous way to at least get some through Might be to periodically
> send a message to someone live in the area of each IGate and hope that
> the courtesy posit will be beaconed once.  Lynn, wont that do at least
> something?
>

Probably only if I change the SOLAR1 from an object to a true station 
posit and send the theoretical message from SOLAR1, preferably just 
before a position update.  I suspect that the APRS-IS servers don't 
forward the message "courtesy posit" for objects, but only actual source 
stations.

I'll give it some thought, but it's really a moot point until they get 
their satellite data feed back online.  The plane hasn't moved or 
updated telemetry values for over 3 hours now.

I did tell them in their Twitter feed that it's awfully hard to spot an 
airplane flying if you don't have an updated location as to where it 
actually IS!

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