<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On May 23, 2007, at 10:00 PM, Robert Bruninga wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Personally, I wouldn't recommend that set up.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>If the car is</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">manned, then it should beacon at least once every 10 minutes</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">direct or one hop.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> <BR></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But that's the beauty of it. It's not manned so my 255 minute beacon is much better then a dumb Kenwood beaconing away every 30 seconds.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">APRS is a communication system among users, not cars.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Like any</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">net, we like to know who is checked in and available.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Beaconing</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">less often than 30 minutes with an operator present, you may as</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">well turn the radio off, because the net cannot tell you are</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">there and available.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>I don't think I've ever seen a net on APRS. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Perhaps your version of APRS differs from what actually occurs on a daily basis in the real world.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Geneva" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Geneva">--</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Geneva" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Geneva">Steve <steve.jones at rogers.com></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Geneva; min-height: 16.0px"><BR></P> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>