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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Great news for Jamboree.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">We are now in touch with the right people. I forgot, but 9 months ago, ICOM had contacted me to work with them to cover APRS at the site. After an email crash, I had sorta lost the thread. But we are back on track now.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">It looks like Icom will have the actual site covered, but we in the surrounding APRS community want to confirm the surrounding digis within 50 miles or so are configured properly. I’ll let everyone know if we need anything else. Of course if you are going to Jamboree be sure to bring your radio!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Another thing we can consider is dusting off those APRStt concepts to see if we can allow scouts with conventional walkie-talkies to enter their location using DTMF key pad. With a properly gridded map, only 2 digits of LAT and 2 of long can place anyone anywhere on the map. See how we planned to use DTMF at the 2010 jamboree. <a href="http://aprs.org/aprs-jamboree-2010.html">http://aprs.org/aprs-jamboree-2010.html</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Bob, Wb4APR</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Robert Bruninga [mailto:<a href="mailto:bruninga@usna.edu">bruninga@usna.edu</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 24, 2013 9:28 AM<br><b>Subject:</b> APRS at 2013 National Scout Jamboree</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Folks,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The nearest digi to the new National (and International) Scout Jamboree area at the Summi, WV is 40 miles away</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">…</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> We need to get a digipeater in the camp to give HT coverage of the entire camp before summer.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Take a look: <a href="http://aprs.fi/KC8SDN-5">http://aprs.fi/KC8SDN-5</a> The summit is about 40 miles WSW.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">ICOM is outfitting the entire Jamboree station including 3 Voice repeaters and DSTAR.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Don Robinson<span style="color:#1f497d"> WA4YYM has provided a link to the Ham Radio Plan for Jamboree and the section on APRS is </span><span style="color:#1f497d">yet to be filled in</span><span style="color:#1f497d">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:".HelveticaNeueUI","serif""><a href="http://www.k2bsa.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/K2BSA-Jamboree-Operations-V8.pdf">http://www.k2bsa.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/K2BSA-Jamboree-Operations-V8.pdf</a><span style="color:#1f497d"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">…</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> Including an Igate would NAIL it for worldwide APRS texting from an HT anywhere in camp.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Bob, WB4APR</span></p>
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