<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 12, 2008 7:39 AM, Ev Tupis <<a href="mailto:w2ev@yahoo.com">w2ev@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The major APRS clients were developed with pre-9/11 ideas about situational awareness in mind and have stagnated there. The consumer has outgrown the APRS clients ability to deliver.<br><br>The APRS service doesn't meet their needs? It is generally "a great
<br>product that technologists trumpet but that consumers don't use" (from<br>the last sentence from Part 2).</blockquote><div><br>OK, so what are their needs, and how is APRS (and ham radio in general) falling short?
<br> <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">This is sad because the Amateur/APRS community has so much to offer...*without* needing to be deployed "inside the yellow tape area". For more on this, please read my DCC 2007 article (or ask me to send you the article in .PDF).
</blockquote><div><br>If this is meant to get some discussion going, and for the benefit of those of us who didn't go to DCC, how about summarizing here? <br></div></div><br>-Jason<br>kg4wsv