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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/14/2013 9:26 PM, Steve Noskowicz
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--- Heikki Hannikainen wrote, in part:
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<pre wrap="">Isn't the potential for abuse already there?
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BTW: Just look for K6RPT-12. That Czech station, OK2PJC, is _still_ injecting objects for it in Algeria... I don't know how to inject directly into the APRS-IS, but from what I do know/hear I think there are many ways to mess things up.
Steve
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It's positively trivial. <br>
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In UIview, for example, all you do is locate the object location of
interest on the map, click on the point and then pull down "Action,
Object Editor" (or hit "F5"). The lat/long coords will already be
filled in. All you do is add the ID (virtual callsign) and any
comments you want, choose a symbol, and then click "OK". The
resulting object will then appear in UIivew's object list and be
automatically beaconed on RF, the Internet, or both. <br>
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In fact, I did this just after K6RPT-12 landed. I fired up an
unrelated PC that I had used to track one of K6RPT's flights a year
earlier, having forgotten that the copy of UIview on the machine
still had an active object for K6RPT's launch site in it. The
result was to snatch K6RPT-12 from it's landing site in Africa back
to the launch site in San Jose, just as the ham community and the
media was going ga-ga over the achievement. (This meant everyone
looking it up on findu or APRS.fi was suddenly seeing an
unremarkable location in San Jose instead of an exotic locale in
Africa!) I even got a complaint from K6RPT himself. <br>
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So I entered the landing site coordinates into the offending object
in my UIview object editior, punched off a couple of object beacons,
and moved K6RPT-12 back to Africa!<br>
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