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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">On Saturday, 15 July we man-up 15 mountains from Maine to Georgia for the Annual Golden Packet attempt.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">We do not have operators yet on 4 peaks below. We need at least one volunteer operator per peak that is FULLY familiar with APRS operation from their APRS radios for the 4 hour event on these mountains not yet committed:</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Mt Washington, New Hampshire</p><p class="MsoNormal">Mt Equinox, Vermont</p><p class="MsoNormal">Sam’s Point state park, New York</p><p class="MsoNormal">Hawksbill, VA on BR parkway</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">All of these are drive-up sites though we expect a good pole mounted vertical antenna for solid coverage 100 miles in both directions.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">For more info and all kinds of details, see: <a href="http://aprs.org/at-golden-packet.html">http://aprs.org/at-golden-packet.html</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">This will be the 9<sup>th</sup> year to demonstrate cross-continent packet text-messaging over 2000 miles and 14 hops using no-prior infrastructure. This year we will operate at 9600 baud since last year we demonstrated it works as well as 1200 but should allow double the message throughput.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">After getting your paltry 100 points at Field Day. Get some respect, and come have fun with packet radio!</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">OR start up your own LONG-LINEAR packet test anywhere else in the country. Pacific Coast trail? Continental Divide Trail? Lewis&Clark Trail?</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Bob, WB4APR</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>