<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>Looks the APRS Snow Pole idea from Bosnia.</div><div><br></div><div>Kent</div><div>KQ4KK </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757">Sent via my new Samsung Galaxy S7 edge, since my other phone was stolen out of my car.</div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Robert Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu> </div><div>Date: 9/9/16 17:25 (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: TAPR APRS Mailing List <aprssig@tapr.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: [aprssig] FEMA- Flood gauges </div><div><br></div></div><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Here is a web page on some of the Flood Gauge ideas… Bob</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="http://aprs.org/flood-gauges.html">http://aprs.org/flood-gauges.html</a></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"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Robert Bruninga [mailto:<a href="mailto:bruninga@usna.edu">bruninga@usna.edu</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 08, 2016 8:55 PM<br><b>To:</b> TAPR APRS Mailing List<br><b>Cc:</b> Robert Bruninga<br><b>Subject:</b> FEMA- Flood gauges</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">FEMA (who have been heavly deployed to Louisanna for the past month) is really, really interested in live flood data.... They asked what can APRS do...</p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Well, Im working on a design, but anyone else is welcome to come up with one too. I want to tie an ON/OFF float switch to turn on a Tracker when the water reaches an "interest" level and then report actual water height every 10 minutes while above that level. The tracker sends the data and colors the icon green, yellow , red...</p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">If the design is suitable, we can purchase a bunch of the sensors and then let TAPR or someone distribute them so people can build these gauges and we can show FEMA what we can do!</p></div><p class="MsoNormal">Bob, WB4APR</p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"> </p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>