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</head><BODY BGCOLOR="#F8F8F8" ><div class="body"><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">The cop-out defense for multiple-guess questions is "What is the BEST answer". That way more than one answer could technically be correct. Your job is to figure out the level of expertise the question writer was assuming about the test taker!</SPAN></div>
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<div class="body"><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">I think a General Personnel Scanner is one of those new government devices that can read all the RF-ID threads that Wal-Mart put in your clothing. There is not enough room in an APRS packet for all the tag numbers, so that answer cannot be correct.<br />--</SPAN></div>
<div class="body"><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">Gary WS5N</SPAN></div>
<div class="body"><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">Tijeras, New Mexico USA</SPAN></div>
<div class="body"><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br /><br />On Tue, 02 May 2006 07:02:20 -0700, Curt, WE7U wrote:<br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">> On Mon, 1 May 2006, Stan - N0YXV wrote:</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:maroon;">>> Just exactly what is a "General Personnel Scanners" anyway. :D</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:maroon;">>></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">> B: They're trying to see if you know what a GPS is I think, by</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">> dreaming up something with the same initials and capitalizing them</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">> to make you notice. So answer B is incorrect just because nobody</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">> knows what the heck that thing is.</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">> A: Ken mentioned all the good info about this one. This is</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">> correct. Answer A is out. APRS _could_ theoretically send</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">> telemetry to a hospital, but it isn't used for this and would</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">> require a changes in procedures/training/software/hardware in order</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">> to do this reliably. So, technically it _is_ possible, but not</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">> probable, and not legal in a lot of cases (personal medical info</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">> again).</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">> That leaves 'C' as the correct answer.</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">> --</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">> Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons:</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br /></SPAN></div>
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