<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>My 2 cents from the fire / EMS / HazMat field is to use this symbol ONLY for hazardous materials / toxic spills incidents as that is what the symbol is universally recognized for in the emergency response community, and in several countries. Reference the DOT 2008 Emergency Response Guidebook and Hazard Communication Standard (29 CFR 1910.1200). I don't thiink that the amatuer radio community should bastardize an already recognized symbol just for our pleaseure.</DIV>
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<DIV>Greg Higgins KB5GLV<BR></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Robert Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu><BR>To: TAPR APRS Mailing List <aprssig@lists.tapr.org><BR>Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 12:44:40 PM<BR>Subject: [aprssig] Skull and crossbones symbol?<BR><BR>> Perfect, there's already a skull symbol on the Garmins!<BR>> Hmm, I think I'm using that for 'killed' objects, though...<BR>> John Vause wrote:<BR>> > I still like the Skull-and-Crossbones...<BR><BR>Actually, come to think about it.. that is a very common<BR>symbol... Hummh... Maybe APRS should have one. We could use<BR>it for toxic spills or APRS pirates... Anyway, I am willing to<BR>consider adding a "skull and crossbones" ... My suggestion is<BR>to add it to the HAZARDOUS alternate symbol using an overlay of<BR>X. So "XH" would decode to skull&crossbones...<BR><BR>I updated the
overlay web page:<BR><A href="http://www.aprs.org/aprs11/symbols-new.txt" target=_blank>http://www.aprs.org/aprs11/symbols-new.txt</A><BR><BR>Bob, WB4aPR<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>aprssig mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:aprssig@lists.tapr.org" ymailto="mailto:aprssig@lists.tapr.org">aprssig@lists.tapr.org</A><BR><A href="https://lists.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig" target=_blank>https://lists.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig</A><BR></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>