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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>I will be presenting a forum entitled "Intro to APRS" at the Rocky Mountain Hamcon 2016 (<a href="http://www.hamconcolorado.org">www.hamconcolorado.org</a> ) and I am looking for a PowerPoint (or similar) presentation so I don’t need to reinvent the wheel. Also, if someone has a good starting point I am willing to add/improve to it and post it back to the files section.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Forum Description<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Introduction to Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>APRS is an amateur radio-based system for real time tactical digital communications of information (graphical position, messaging, weather station, and other sensor information). It is also accessible on the internet via a world-wide network. This forum will cover the background of APRS, hardware and software implementations, and real world applications.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>My (rough) syllabus is as follows (I have an hour):<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Why APRS?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>What is APRS?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>History of APRS.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Ways of doing APRS (Looking for a list of all current HW and SW).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>How it works (user).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>How it works (technical).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>APRS-IS<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Bench top demo of various APRS implementations(D72, D710, APRSCE32, and whatever else I can scrounge up).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Suggestions welcome.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Lee N4TCW<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Where's Lee?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>http://map.findu.com/n4tcw <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>