<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468981369058_9347" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468981369058_9346">Since Heikki Hannikainen is the owner and creator of APRS.FI, I think he would know.</span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468981369058_9332"><br>Max KG4PID<br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468981369058_9379" style="display: block;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468981369058_9378" style="font-family: Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468981369058_9377" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Peter Laws N5UWY via aprssig <aprssig@tapr.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> TAPR APRS Mailing List <aprssig@tapr.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, July 20, 2016 9:56 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [aprssig] [aprsfi] VK4TEC pushing ADS-B data to APRS-IS<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468981369058_9376"><br>On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 8:42 AM, Heikki Hannikainen via aprssig<br clear="none"><<a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1468981369058_9380" href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> It seems like Andrew VK4TEC has started to gateway ADS-B data to the<br clear="none">> APRS-IS.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> <a href="http://aprs.fi/?c=raw&limit=300&call=VK4TEC*&view=normal" target="_blank" shape="rect">http://aprs.fi/?c=raw&limit=300&call=VK4TEC*&view=normal</a><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I do not think that this is a great idea - the APRS-IS is supposed to be a<br clear="none">> network for amateur radio communications, and quite a lot of people depend<br clear="none">> on it being just that.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">As has been made clear recently (to me if no one else) just because<br clear="none">you see it on APRS.fi or another internet service, doesn't mean it's<br clear="none">"on APRS". AIS is there, too, but those ships aren't "on APRS".<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I look at APRS.fi all the time since getting re-interested in APRS but<br clear="none">I have yet to see a single ship ID in EM15 ...<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train!<div class="yqt2560439030" id="yqtfd84532"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">aprssig mailing list<br clear="none"><a href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a><br clear="none"><a href="http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig" target="_blank" shape="rect">http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>