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--></style></head><body bgcolor="white" 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">We need to understand what we mean by “digits”... 5 or 6 digits relative to what? The LSB of a grid is 1 meter, and I doubt you mean that teams were reporting each meter of movement by voice? I thought a “3 digit” report was to the nearest 100 yards just generally reporting the team’s position (dropping the two LSB digits.) or was it dropping one LSB and reporting to the nearest 10m?</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">I don’t want to approach SAR groups directly until we have an idea, and was hoping there were some people on APRSSIG that were heavily into SAR and could help nail down the concepts of general usage first.</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</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> Bob Harris [mailto:<a href="mailto:knineudx@gmail.com">knineudx@gmail.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 18, 2015 3:13 PM<br><b>To:</b> Robert Bruninga; TAPR APRS Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [aprssig] APRStt and SAR... Revised proposal (a)</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Percent of assignment completed<br>Estimated time to completion of assignment<br><br>#5 would not change after the searcher left the staging area so might be unnecessary.<br><br>Since the coordinates are used to record the track actually taken by the searcher, the least significant digis are important. The group with which I was affiliated for a couple of years used the 5 or 6 digits on their periodic reports back to the search coordinator. It is important (for legal reasons post search) to be able to have the most accurate track possible. LE (law enforcement, in the case of New Hampshire, the Fish and Game Department) requires accurate tracks to be archived.<br><br>Have you considered addressing SAR groups with your proposals and getting their input? It is one thing for a bunch of hams to come up with a method; quite another to have something that actually would be useful and acceptable to those with the boots on the ground.</p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On 5/18/2015 12:48 PM, Robert Bruninga via aprssig wrote:</p></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><pre>0 - off duty</pre><pre><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>1 - Standing by</pre><pre><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>2 - enroute (meaning to assigned start point)</pre><pre><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>3 - returning (RTB after search)</pre><pre><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>4 - searching</pre><pre><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>5 - searching with special (dog team, etc)</pre><pre><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>6 - Resting,eating,etc</pre><pre><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>7 - Clue found</pre><pre><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>8 - Send assist</pre><pre><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>9 - Subject Found</pre></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal">-- </p><p style="margin-bottom:.7pt">Bob Harris (K9UDX)<br>Can MOTCH Katmai Henry David Thoreau UDX Bda UD (1992-2005)<br>Longmeadow Bradford Torrey CD (2001-2014)<br>Ch Silvercreek Gossip Girl<br>Bath, NH</p></div></div></body></html>