[aprssig] future APRS wish list

[Gregg Wonderly]

This is why we really need to look at OpenTrac as a way to greatly enhance the opportunities that packet data can provide.  APRS is just not going to ever meet all the needs.  We need a data transfer protocol with explicit data type identification.  Then completely new types of data could always be added in completely backward compatible ways!

Gregg Wonderly
W5GGW

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> On Apr 1, 2024, at 12:28 PM, Ron VE8RT <ve8rt at yknwt.ca> wrote:
> 
>    I think thparts of my wish list have come up in scattered postings
> before.  In brief here is what I would like to see:
> - a more propagation tolerant mode with error correction (HF and VHF)
> - more parameters, very important multiple temperature sensors
> including ground (for permafrost, and zombie fire progression), and
> soil mumidty
> - air quality, and possibly visibility
> - pyrometer
> - there likely will be others of interest but hadn't given thought to
> yet
> 
>  On another, but related note, having spend hours online searching for
> material, online, or in print, for beginners like myself of how to
> interface analogue sensors to build an APRS remote sensing (WX plus
> plus) station, I'm having no luck.  Interface modules with built in
> temp, humidity, and pressure sensors cannot do the job as the
> temperature or humidty of the module is of no value and two additional
> inputs is far too few.  Is someone making available their work on
> interfacing?
> 
>  I'm also on the Discord server, watching posts there.
> 
>    Ron VE8RT  Yellowknife, NT
> 
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> Ron VE8RT <ve8rt at yknwt.ca>
> 
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