<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_23048">What was in them? Plans anywhere?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_23049">Ev<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_22942"><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_22943" class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_22948" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_22947" style="font-family: Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_22946" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_22945" dir="ltr"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_22944" face="Arial" size="2"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_22997" size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> khufford <khufford@atlanticbb.net><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 5:09 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_22994" class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv6897381601"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_22996">
<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_22995">SNOW POLES, were APRS sensor package in large PVC pipe dropped out of Ch47 helos in Bosnia in 1995.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_23100"><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv6897381601composer_signature"></div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458266211298_23101"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757;">Sent via Electronic Means </div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-------- Original message --------<br clear="none">From: Ev Tupis via aprssig <aprssig@tapr.org> <br clear="none">Date: 3/17/2016 16:35 (GMT-05:00) <br clear="none">To: TAPR APRS Mailing List <aprssig@tapr.org> <br clear="none">Subject: [aprssig] Autonomous EMCOMM Telemetry <br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv6897381601yqt8312987403" id="yiv6897381601yqt13004"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div id="yiv6897381601yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_2942">Has anyone come up with an APRS-based environmental telemetry sensor for EMCOMM use?</div><div id="yiv6897381601yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_2943"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv6897381601yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_2944">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.</div><div id="yiv6897381601yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_2945"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv6897381601yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_2946">Examples:</div><ul id="yiv6897381601yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_3056"><li id="yiv6897381601yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_3058">Wind speed, wind direction, temperature, humidity ... for chemical spills or forest fires</li><li id="yiv6897381601yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_3057">Water level ... to help manage flooding</li><li id="yiv6897381601yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_3055">Air transparency ... to help manage air pollution</li></ul><div id="yiv6897381601yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_3054"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv6897381601yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_3053">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.</div><div id="yiv6897381601yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_3121"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv6897381601yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_3126">Anything?</div><div id="yiv6897381601yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_3127"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv6897381601yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_3156">Ev, W2EV</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv6897381601yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458246301174_3157"><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>