<div>I have made more contacts that I can remember over voice alert. The last was a VE3 station travelling near savannah GA in the opposite direction as me. Neither one of us knew any local repeaters so we just exchanged names and destinations before getting too far apart. But it is _always_ exciting to hear the brrrrrappppp on some long stretch of road.
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert Bruninga</b> <<a href="mailto:bruninga@usna.edu">bruninga@usna.edu</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">> >... (has *anyone* ever made a random voice alert contact?<br>> > It seems... easier to work... DX than... another APRSuser.
<br>><br>> I have made two or three -- in the past -- oh -- say -- 6<br>> or 8 years! Lee Dahlen was one, Bob Bruninga was another.<br>> And in the middle of nowhere, too!<br><br>That's the joy of APRS Voice Alert. If someone is there and
<br>within 2 or 3 miles of you, you cannot miss the opportunity for<br>a live simplex QSO.<br><br>CAVEAT: As long as some fool in the area is not running it 24/7<br>from a basestation which causes everyone in that area to turn
<br>their volume down so that they don't have to hear his 24/7<br>false-alarms... In that case, its back to normal mobile ham<br>radio... Ships passing in the night with no comms...<br><br>We have such a signal in Washington DC... Voice Alert packets
<br>are on, but no one home (listening)... I turn down my volume<br>and then forget for days to bring it back up.<br><br>Like we say, it only takes a few un-informed individuals running<br>it from base stations or 24/7 parked cars to wipe out Voice
<br>Alert in an area.<br><br>Bob, Wb4APR<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>aprssig mailing list<br><a href="mailto:aprssig@lists.tapr.org">aprssig@lists.tapr.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig">
https://lists.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>In theory there is no difference between practice and theory.