Our power was affected by the thunderstorms last night -- I promised I'd get back last night, but am a little late.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Robert Bruninga <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bruninga@usna.edu">bruninga@usna.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">> None, but if we keep putting bandages on it rather<br>
> than pushing for the manufacturers to do it right<br>
> we'll keep waiting for a long time.<br>
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</div>Push, push.. Push?<br>
<br>
Its sad that ham radio has devolved to an appliance hobby where<br>
we just sit on our hands and wait for the Japanese to design our<br>
next toy and then have it manufactured in China and shipped to<br>
our waiting hands...<br></blockquote><div><br>I'll agree to that -- but we have to have something more than a 35-question multiple choice exam with the questions published before this situation gets any better. <br><br>
<snip><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;">
No matter how much one would desire to go back and change these<br>
tens of thousands of radios, it is never going to happen. And<br>
so I see no harm in taking matters into our own hands and<br>
*CONTINUING* what we have been doing for 18 years, and that is<br>
using common SSID's where practical.<br></blockquote><br></div>But I can't agree here. We have NOT been using SSIDs to give station information for a decade now.<br><br>According to Steve Dimse, icons based on SSIDs was deprecated in 2000, ten years ago. I gave the link to some information a few days ago, but it seems to have disappeared -- see <<a href="http://www.tapr.org/pipermail/aprssig/2005-January/003539.html">http://www.tapr.org/pipermail/aprssig/2005-January/003539.html</a>> --<br>
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<pre>On 1/19/05 at 12:20 AM Earl Needham <<a href="https://www.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig">needhame1 at plateautel.net</a>> sent:<br><br>><i><br></i>><i> Why does <br></i>><i>KD5XB-9>APRS,MELROZ*,WIDE5-4,qAo,W5ALL-1:$GPRMC,043322,A,3410.6052,N,10321.2030<br>
</i>,<br>><i>W,032.0,228.6,190105,,*0F<br></i>><i><br></i>><i>show as a house on Findu but as a little red car (as it should) in Ui-View?<br></i>><i><br></i>The use of icons based on SSID was deprecated 5 years ago when I created findU,<br>
the correct way to set an icon for a stand-alone tracker is with GPSxyz.<br><br>Steve K4HG<br><br><br></pre>Bob, either I'm totally misunderstanding what you want to do with SSIDs, or else you want to take a step ten years into the past.<br>
<br>I also stated a few days ago -- that I periodically get messages where somebody is trying to correct my use of -11 as my SSID in the 18-wheeler, usually that person has actually tried APRS for less than a week! This proposal will only increase those incidents, I think.<br>
<br>I've always felt, that if I want to see icons in my mobile, I should purchase a laptop or an Avmap or something like that. When I run a HamHUD, all I see is positions and raw packets, not icons. I've always taken the view that I am responsible for spending the money to see however much I want to see.<br>
<br>If you wish to go back to using SSIDs to set icons, then whatever happened to -9=car, -10=truck, etc???<br><br>I guess that's about it -- perhaps more to come.<br><br>7 3<br>Earl<br>-- <br><pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">
KD5XB -- Earl Needham<br>Clovis, New Mexico DM84jk<br><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cw_bugs">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cw_bugs</a><br>Quoting from the Coast Guard: ZUT</pre>
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