<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_21075"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_21206">That's great, Charlie! Imagine Emergency First Responders OFFICIALLY asking hams to deploy such sensors, providing realtime situational awareness to degrees never before possible.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_21541"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_21206"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_21764" dir="ltr">As I've interacted with municipalities in my line of business...this topic comes up from time-to-time. Maybe you could even commercialize it.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_21763" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_21762" dir="ltr">Stay the course!</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_21735" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_21736" dir="ltr">Ev, W2EV</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_21080" class="qtdSeparateBR"><br></div><div style="display: block;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_21084" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_21083" style="font-family: Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_21082" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_21081" dir="ltr"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_21085" face="Arial" size="2"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_21323" size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Charles Blackburn <ai4ri@cfl.rr.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> 'Ev Tupis' <w2ev@yahoo.com>; 'TAPR APRS Mailing List' <aprssig@tapr.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, March 17, 2016 5:25 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: [aprssig] Autonomous EMCOMM Telemetry<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_21086" class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv8971165501"><style>#yiv8971165501 #yiv8971165501 --
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#yiv8971165501 </style><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_21090"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_21089" class="yiv8971165501WordSection1"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_21088" class="yiv8971165501MsoNormal"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_21087" style="font-size:11.0pt;">I am actually doing a similar thing right now as a little side project for work using our commercial wx gear.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_21091" class="yiv8971165501MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_21794" class="yiv8971165501MsoNormal"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_21793" style="font-size:11.0pt;">It started out as just a simple way to display the encoded data to verify the calibration, but I was thinking the exact same thing last night LOL</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_21795" class="yiv8971165501MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_21797" class="yiv8971165501MsoNormal"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_21796" style="font-size:11.0pt;">Charlie</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_21798" class="yiv8971165501MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv8971165501yqt0705296552" id="yiv8971165501yqtfd46570"><div class="yiv8971165501MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> aprssig [mailto:aprssig-bounces@tapr.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ev Tupis via aprssig<br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 17, 2016 16:35<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> TAPR APRS Mailing List <aprssig@tapr.org><br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> [aprssig] Autonomous EMCOMM Telemetry</span></div></div></div></div><div class="yiv8971165501yqt0705296552" id="yiv8971165501yqtfd53606"><div class="yiv8971165501MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv8971165501yqt0705296552" id="yiv8971165501yqtfd61592"><div id="yiv8971165501yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_2942"><div class="yiv8971165501MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="">Has anyone come up with an APRS-based environmental telemetry sensor for EMCOMM use?</span></div></div><div id="yiv8971165501yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_2943"><div class="yiv8971165501MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style=""> </span></div></div><div id="yiv8971165501yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_2944"><div class="yiv8971165501MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="">Specifically...having a "sensor/APRS kit" that one could drop-or-deploy into a theater and let it beacon back telemetry that would be of use to emergency first and second responders.</span></div></div><div id="yiv8971165501yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_2945"><div class="yiv8971165501MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style=""> </span></div></div><div id="yiv8971165501yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_2946"><div class="yiv8971165501MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="">Examples:</span></div></div><ul id="yiv8971165501yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_3056" type="disc"><li class="yiv8971165501MsoNormal" id="yiv8971165501yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_3058" style="color:black;background:white;"><span style="">Wind speed, wind direction, temperature, humidity ... for chemical spills or forest fires</span></li><li class="yiv8971165501MsoNormal" id="yiv8971165501yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_3057" style="color:black;background:white;"><span style="">Water level ... to help manage flooding</span></li><li class="yiv8971165501MsoNormal" id="yiv8971165501yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_3055" style="color:black;background:white;"><span style="">Air transparency ... to help manage air pollution</span></li></ul><div id="yiv8971165501yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_3054"><div class="yiv8971165501MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style=""> </span></div></div><div id="yiv8971165501yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_3053"><div class="yiv8971165501MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="">Either drop-and-forget (like around a forest fire) or purposefully deploy (like, ahead of a flooding event)...but with the expressed purpose of providing valued telemetry of known quality.</span></div></div><div id="yiv8971165501yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_3121"><div class="yiv8971165501MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style=""> </span></div></div><div id="yiv8971165501yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_3126"><div class="yiv8971165501MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="">Anything?</span></div></div><div id="yiv8971165501yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_3127"><div class="yiv8971165501MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style=""> </span></div></div></div><div id="yiv8971165501yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_3156"><div class="yiv8971165501MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style=""></span></div><div class="yiv8971165501yqt0705296552" id="yiv8971165501yqtfd85175">Ev, W2EV</div></div><div id="yiv8971165501yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_3157"><div class="yiv8971165501MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style=""> </span></div></div></div></div>
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