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Robert Bruninga wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:777EC4A1042843CF803BCF896E67C888@ewlab.usna.edu" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">Good point. Things on my APRS web pages first come to light as</pre>
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<blockquote cite="mid:777EC4A1042843CF803BCF896E67C888@ewlab.usna.edu" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">fuzzy ideas. Then a web page goes up. THen as we learn and
refine, more and more gets added. I agree, the result is a
ramble. Ill try to clean it up a bit. But it should be noted
that that page serves two purposes.
1) Educate all of HAM Radio, (not just APRS users) about the
importance that Frequency can have in our daily communications.
That was the original ARRL initiative to which we responded
after Katrina.
2) Show people how to do it.
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If you are going to refer people to this page for instructions on HOW
TO DO IT , <br>
then the HOW TO DO IT paragraphs should be AT or NEAR THE TOP (Or at
least<br>
a link near the top to an anchor lower down on the page, with something
like:<br>
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"Jump to Detailed Setup Instructions Lower Down On This Page"<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:777EC4A1042843CF803BCF896E67C888@ewlab.usna.edu" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">
OK, I tried to smooth up the details of the settings. But I
couldn't get rid of the background preceeding it, since I point
to this web page all the time for non-APRS users and ARRL VIP's
to hope they get the value of APRS in communicating local
frequency info...
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<pre wrap="">punctuated by a series of fuzzy low-contrast,
low-res images of radio front panels.
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<pre wrap=""><!---->
You are right, some of them were taken with a Kenwood VCH-1 SSTV
camera over a decade ago.
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AARRGH!!!! One of the WORST imaging devices ever offered the
public! (I have two of the VC-H1s and NEVER use the supplied camera
head. I always use the NTSC monitor output of a decent digital camera
as an image source for the VC-H1 -- it improves the image quality of
transmitted images several hundred percent.)<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:777EC4A1042843CF803BCF896E67C888@ewlab.usna.edu" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">That is all I had at the time. But
on the other hand, they sure load quickly! I for one, prefer
speed over image bloat any time especially when all we are
showing is text anyway. Kinda like the amateur mantra of using
the minimum bandwidth to communicate... I scrunch
All 2 MB photos by 16:1 or more before placing on my web pages.
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There is absolutely no reason whatsoever that these images should be
remotely near 2MB, "scrunched" or "unscrunched". Further, they won't
be any larger if they are IN FOCUS with DECENT CONTRAST!!! Invest 40
bucks in a second-hand digital camera off Craigs List (I just bough a
two-year-old Canon A75 Powershot for $45 that has zoom macrofocusing
capability that can fill the entire field of view with a SHARP image of
the screen of a TH-D7 at 18"). <br>
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Then twiddle the resulting images in Photoshop. Jack up the contrast,
crop and resize from it's native multi-megapixel resolution to
something like 320x240, reduce the color depth from photographic
high-color to 256 colors (you'll never notice the difference on screen
shots or images of maps) and save as a GIF image. If you don't have
PhotoShop, the freeware IrfanView program from <a href="http://irfanview.com"><http://irfanview.com></a> can
perform these operations just about as well. <br>
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My webpage with the review of the Garmin Foretrex 201 wrist GPS shows
what can be done to tweak images of small LCD screens (the Foretrex
screen is only a little larger than the TH-D7s):<br>
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<<a href="http://wa8lmf.net/Foretrex">http://wa8lmf.net/Foretrex</a>>
(None of the images linked from this page are larger than 38K.)<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:777EC4A1042843CF803BCF896E67C888@ewlab.usna.edu" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">
I would welcome any better photo contributions. The ECHOLINK
and IRLP photos on the D7 need to be re-shot since I left out
the FREQUENCY on the second line.... Kinda silly, since that
was the whole point. And I only just noticed that tonight!
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<pre wrap="">A template with the exact format of this kind of frequency
object, along with a couple of example strings, needs to be
the FIRST item on the page.
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<pre wrap=""><!---->
I take your suggestions and cleaned up the presentation a
little... But still, the formats come after intro and
background, since that is the main point of this page to APRS
and non-APRS users alike. We need to get out the word that the
concept of operating frequency is as equally an important
parameter about any station at least as important as his LAT and
LONG.
After all, we have radios to commnicate. And we have to know
frequency to do that... Not just put little icons on FINDU.
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This has nothing to do with effectively using page layout and
typography to make the page readable, and the critical information
easily findable.<br>
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I think you need a WYSIWYG HTML editor rather than a simple ASCII text
editor so that you can more easily control page layouts with multiple
columns, multiple fonts, etc. A very nice basic FREEWARE HTML
editor is available at:<br>
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<<a href="http://www.nvu.com">http://www.nvu.com</a>/>
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This is NOT a bloated "Web 2.0" app for creating pages massively loaded
with Flash Animation, video clips, Javascript popups, cascading style
sheets, etc. It is a small and fast open-source app for Windows, Mac
and Linux that runs on modest hardware. It can toggle between an edit
page that resembles MS Word, a traditional HTML code view, and a
browser preview mode as you edit. <br>
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Think of it as a FREE diet-sized version of MS Frontpage. Like
Frontpage, it also includes a "site manager" feature that lets you see
the connections between pages of the site, and an integrated FTP client
for uploading to the server. It is ideal for the kind of relatively
simple, primarily
text-oriented-but-with-some-formatting-and-a-few-images pages needed
for non-commercial websites without active dynamically-assembled
content, like the typical ham pages. And it is FREEE!<br>
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--<br>
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Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com <br>
EchoLink Node: 14400 [Think bottom of the 2M band]<br>
Home Page: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wa8lmf.com">http://wa8lmf.com</a> --OR-- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wa8lmf.net">http://wa8lmf.net</a><br>
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NEW! World Digipeater Map<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wa8lmf.net/APRSmaps">http://wa8lmf.net/APRSmaps</a><br>
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JavAPRS Filter Port 14580 Guide <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/JAVaprsFilters.htm">http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/JAVaprsFilters.htm</a><br>
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"APRS 101" Explanation of APRS Path Selection & Digipeating <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wa8lmf.net/DigiPaths">http://wa8lmf.net/DigiPaths</a> <br>
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Updated "Rev H" APRS <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wa8lmf.net/aprs">http://wa8lmf.net/aprs</a><br>
Symbols Set for UI-View, <br>
UIpoint and APRSplus:<br>
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