[aprssig] What is APRS, really?

[Miroslav Skoric]

On 10/23/20 4:29 AM, Randy Hall wrote:

> I've used Bob's general idea as follows:
> 
> "Imagine you're a new ham, or a ham that drives in from out of town. What
> are some of the things that ham might want to know about the area and what
> ham radio resources might be available?"
> 
> THAT is the promise of APRS. Not just position reports on where you are
> located, but that you're at a radio and listening on a frequency. That is
> what a ham (whether newly minted on their first APRS-capable radio, or a
> wizened OM just rolling in from out of town) might want to know. That's
> what should be beaconed over RF as they arrive or turn on their radio.
> 
> If nobody else is doing it, why not you?
> 
> --R
> 
> AA6RH
> 

Well said OM.

Btw, that's something I keep trying to explain to not-so-clever leaders 
of our local ham radio union. More and more often, when I open the map I 
can see only myself in the country of Serbia.

Misko YT7MPB
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