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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’m using a netbook in the truck for APRS on all our balloon flights. On a usual flight i’m running UI-View32, UI-Route, Balloon Track, APRSIS-32 as well as google earth and mappoint for maps, and Franson GPS gate & agwpe pro for gps and tnc sharing on a T2-301, 2<sup>nd</sup> tnc on a T2 w/ a FT-8500 and third TNC from a D-710 on a eeepc 1008HA upgraded to 2gb memory on windows 7 home premium. It ran them all fine at 1gb as well but had a little noticeable lag.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> You don’t need a power machine for APRS, its not that cpu intensive normally. I was running all that on a dell Latitude E6500, but the netbook is easier to use in the truck I find with a external Bluetooth trackball and 3G wireless access point.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’ve dropped my config down to a T2-301 w/ nuvi 350 and OT2 on a Ft-8500 for tnc’s, and aprsis32 for my main map, I still run UI-view in the background only to feed data to balloontrack for predictions, and it’s very responsive, I don’t see any difference between this config and the same hardware on the dell Latitude E6500 w/ 4gb of memory.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Garrett<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>VE6RKY<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Bear.sbszoo.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> aprssig-bounces@tapr.org [mailto:aprssig-bounces@tapr.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Lee Bengston<br><b>Sent:</b> December-12-10 8:00 PM<br><b>To:</b> TAPR APRS Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [aprssig] APRS net book (was SDR)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Mark Earle <<a href="mailto:wa2mct@mearle.com">wa2mct@mearle.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 12/12/2010 10:59 AM, r gilson wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><div><p class=MsoNormal>Has anyone used a net book for APRS? How much ram and what program did u use? There are many netbooks out there and need some input before investing. Thanks<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>WA2WWK<br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 12/12/10, Matti Aarnio <i><oh2mqk@sr</i></b><o:p></o:p></p></div></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><tt><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Yes, I have an Asus E PC 1000HA. 1g ram, 1.6g Atom. Runs UI View, APRS+SA, findu and aprsfi in the browser. XP. Good general purpose computer, not blazing fast but fine. </span></tt><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br><br><tt>10" screen. I found this at an ebay seller for $240 including shipping. </tt><br><br><tt>It runs on 12v -- 12.000v not 13.8! The one I bought has the large LI battery, it runs for 5 hours or so. </tt><br><br><tt>There is no serial port, only 3 usb ports, I've run 2 serial to usb at the same time, though. It also runs just fine the AGWPE softare / sound card tnc. </tt><br><br><tt>Oh - this one has a 160g HD so plenty of room. </tt></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I also have the Asus Eee PC 1000HA - same as above except the stock 1G RAM stick was swapped with a 2G stick. Currently I am dual-booting Linux and the XP Home that it came with. I have Xastir installed in Linux and APRSIS32 in Windows XP. Considering how inexpensive it was, the quality is still good. I'm very happy with it with the exception of the location of the shift key on the right side of the keyboard.<br><br>Lee - K5DAT<br>Murphy, TX<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>