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OK Bob,<br>
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Yes. That is the only permutation I could get my D700 to accept, except for plain HFEST. <br>
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1 - HFEST2-6 liooks like Feb 6, so it's a bit user hostile, though that's all there is, except...<br>
2 - Plain HFEST.<br>
Now, I figure HFEST could be ok ON THE DAY OF the hamfest. Here's why.<br>
First, Beacon HFEST with low power (range of 5-10 miles max), a very short path, if any, and, I think by necessity, NOGATE.<br>
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1 - Hams who don't know about it probably aren't going to do the APRS
HFEST search to see if one is "today", so it doesn't need to go on the
APRS-IS.<br>
2 - Those who DO know about it will MOST LIKELY know at least the town name or other general location.<br>
3 - ...SO ... they can drive within 5-10 miles of that locale and
either look for (or have been told) the talk-in, or start getting
the beacons, with the talk-in, and just drive-to.<br>
4 - The NOGATE path keeps it off the Net so it won't conflict with
another potental D700 "day-of" HFEST that sneeks through because he
forgot, didn't know about, or disagrees with the NOGATE.<br>
Any holes in that concept?<br>
<br>
For the heck of it, I'm gonna' see if computer input has the same
restrictions on the MYCALL - probably does, but I wanna' see it.<br>
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In Fact, thinking about it, any LOCAL object meeting type of event
doesn't need to go on the net for the same reasons #1, & #2.<br>
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Hey a meeting would be a \h and HMEET, right? or
HCLUB...HAUCT, HFDAY, FLDAY, HSAR, HPROJ, yadda,
yadda.<br>
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P.S. I'm working on my D700 Excel workbook, again. It does
memories, memories and tunes the D700 and just figured out how to do
all the PM's -- something that the Kenwood MCP doesn't do. It
only does the current one.<br>
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I agree, keep one PM for such local stuff.<br><br>-- <br>
73, Steve, K9DCI<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 7/18/08, Robert Bruninga <i><bruninga@usna.edu></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Robert Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu><br>Subject: Re: [aprssig] HAMFEST objects on APRS or NOT !!<br>To: "'TAPR APRS Mailing List'" <aprssig@lists.tapr.org><br>Date: Friday, July 18, 2008, 8:29 AM<br><br><pre>HFEST-26x<br><br>> I was gonna' do it for the Lake County, IL TechFest <br>> on the 26th, but the D700 won't allow an SSID like that.<br><br>Good point. And I do encourage D7, D700 and D710 operators to<br>be prepared to enter OBJECTS as needed to inform their fellow<br>APRS mobiles of things going on in the area. I keep one of my<br>PM's for that purpose. One use is plotting the locations of<br>POLICE cars when I pass them.. But I also try to remember when<br>I arrive at ANY Ham radio event, to leave the D700 running
and<br>quickly change MYCALL to the name of the event. That way, my<br>car is beaconing the location OBJECT for that event. And with<br>the D710, the rate decays since you are no longer moving..<br><br>> How about this work around...<br><br>I think the abbreviated form (to fit into a MYCALL) could be<br>HFEST2-6. This gets the date in there, and also will still be<br>found on the http://map.findu.com/HFEST* web page...<br><br>Bob, Wb4APR<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>aprssig mailing list<br>aprssig@lists.tapr.org<br>https://lists.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig</pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>