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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">APRS and its APRS-IS cloud are not being used to their full potential of “Big data”…</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">The original intent of APRS in its 1992 paper at DCC was to be a single information resource channel to maintain real-time situational awareness of *<b>everything</b>* going on in HAM RADIO is an area. Everything we could think of to identify our activities, station capabilities and actions was included in the format.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">The idea was, tune to 144.39, monitor for 10 minutes, and you would see everything going on in Ham radio in your area, on any and all bands and any and all activites, nets, frequencies, contests, meetings, eyeballs, and what you were building, installing, whatever. If you were doing *<b>it</b>* then there was a packet on APRS announcing it live (for the duration).</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">All we got instead, was a wasted decade of one-way GPS trackers with no one even looking at what was going on in their area.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Are you doing something useful right now in Ham radio? Are you beaconing it?</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">APRSdos even had a human-present detector (any keys or mouse movement) and if so, your home station symbol changed to indicate “operator present” and of course (by 2004) your voice monitoring frequency was included in your beacon.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Anyway, what else can we do with “big data”? I always wanted to write a “special event “ detector that would note any “convergence” of specialty mobiles in an area… thus, alerting one to an emergency response or something,…</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">SO much fun… so little time…</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Bob, WB4APR</p></div></body></html>