<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:8pt"><div><span>Glad someone likes my idea of multiple memory switching - -</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>VA works sort of ok around Texas. My experience has been that the other ham is usually going the opposite direction unless I am going to/from a hamfest.<br></span></div><div> </div><div>de Charlie, N5EXY, Grid EM10fl,<br>South Suburban Greater Hutto <br>
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</div><br><div><br></div><br> <div></div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Robert Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> aprssig@tapr.org; aprs@yahoogroups.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, November 26, 2013 5:09 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [aprssig] Voice Alert while traveling!<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv1875565223"><style><!--
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--></style><div><div class="yiv1875565223WordSection1"><div class="yiv1875565223MsoNormal">Don’t forget on your APRS thanksgiving travels to listen on Voice Alert.</div><div class="yiv1875565223MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1875565223MsoNormal">
This simply means running CTCSS100 on your APRS radio’s band (144.39 in USA). You will hear any other APRS station in simplex range and he will hear you if you make a quick Voice Call on 144.39 and suggest QSY to “52”. But with CTCSS y ou wont hear anything else.</div>
<div class="yiv1875565223MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1875565223MsoNormal">Its like a free radar detector for nearby APRS mobiles in simplex range. Why waste a perfectly good always-on-channel by having the volume turned down! Set CTCSS100 and be available for a local call.</div>
<div class="yiv1875565223MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1875565223MsoNormal">The best way to operate APRS is to program several APRS channels in your radio:</div><div class="yiv1875565223MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1875565223MsoListParagraph" style=""><span style="">1)<span style="font:7.0pt;"> </span></span>“APRS raw” – 144.39 simplex no tone squelch</div>
<div class="yiv1875565223MsoListParagraph" style=""><span style="">2)<span style="font:7.0pt;"> </span></span>“APRS VA” - 144.39 simplex CTCSS 100 <span style="font-family:Wingdings;">ç</span> normal operations with Voice Alert</div>
<div class="yiv1875565223MsoListParagraph" style=""><span style="">3)<span style="font:7.0pt;"> </span></span>“APRS mute” – 144.39 simplex CTCSS xxx <span style="font-family:Wingdings;">ç</span> when you want quiet & another VA is nearby</div>
<div class="yiv1875565223MsoListParagraph" style=""><span style="">4)<span style="font:7.0pt;"> </span></span>“APRS evnt” – 144.99TX, 144.39RX <span style="font-family:Wingdings;">ç</span> for special events with an ALT-DIGI</div>
<div class="yiv1875565223MsoListParagraph" style=""><span style="">5)<span style="font:7.0pt;"> </span></span>“APRS ALT” -144.39TX, 144.99RX <span style="font-family:Wingdings;">ç</span> when acting as an ALT digi</div>
<div class="yiv1875565223MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1875565223MsoNormal">This way you can change between all of these modes without ever having to touch a menu. Just change channels on the APRS band of the radio.</div><div class="yiv1875565223MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1875565223MsoNormal">
The point is to never turn the volume down on the APRSband. Why waste a perfectly good radio channel that you are monitoring 100% of the time anyway.</div><div class="yiv1875565223MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1875565223MsoNormal">APRS Voice Alert is an order of magnitude better than monitoring “52” while mobile, because unless you are calling CQ on 52 every minute, and so is everyone else, you wont even hear each other in a crossing situation. In contrast, APRS Voice Alert is “calling CQ” every minute for you.</div>
<div class="yiv1875565223MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1875565223MsoNormal">That’s why I like proportional pathing. Im calling CQ on Voice Alert every minute, but only beaconing via the local digi once every 2 minutes and only via 2 hops once every 4 minutes. But at the 1 minute local rate, crossing drivers get good warning of the others presence.</div>
<div class="yiv1875565223MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1875565223MsoNormal">See: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://aprs.org/VoiceAlert3.html">http://aprs.org/VoiceAlert3.html</a></div><div class="yiv1875565223MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1875565223MsoNormal">Bob, WB4APR</div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>aprssig mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org" href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a><br><a href="http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig" target="_blank">http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </blockquote><div></div> </div></body></html>