APRS is still considered an 'experimental' mode in the Field Day rules. One contact via APRS messaging gets you 100 bonus points, I believe. Kinda like 1 contact via a satellite gets you 100 bonus points.<div><br></div>
<div>WF5X</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Andrew P. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrewemt@hotmail.com" target="_blank">andrewemt@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Either that, or they're staking out the object name in the global APRS-IS before someone else claims it.<br>
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By the way, do APRS message exchanges count as a contact for Field Day? ;-)<br>
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Andrew Pavlin, KA2DDO<br>
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From: Stephen H. Smith<br>
To: <a href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a><br>
Sent: May 25, 2012 2:18 PM<br>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] Jumping The Gun: CQ Field Day Station Showing On My Webserver!<br>
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On 5/25/2012 2:05 PM, John Gorkos wrote:<br>
> My guess would be an Igate with a KPC-3+ in KISS mode. I keep telling<br>
> them there's a buffer problem in there somewhere...<br>
><br>
> On 5/25/12 1:28 PM, "Bill Vodall"<<a href="mailto:wa7nwp@gmail.com">wa7nwp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>>> About 30 mins ago, an object "CQ FLDDAY" appeared on my Michigan-area<br>
>>> UI-Webserver map, about half way between Jackson and Kalamazoo,<br>
>>> Michigan.<br>
>>><br>
>>> .<<a href="http://wa8lmf.dyndns.org:14439/mapVHF.htm" target="_blank">http://wa8lmf.dyndns.org:14439/mapVHF.htm</a>><br>
>>><br>
>>> Only a month early!<br>
>>><br>
>><br>
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Seems to be gone now. Maybe he was only testing in preparation for FD.<br>
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