<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto">I'm proud to say I just put a new igate/digi up in the mountains. Love doing APRS stuff.
<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">KI4NBY</div><div dir="auto">Brady </div><div><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: spam8mybrain via aprssig <aprssig@lists.tapr.org> </div><div>Date: 10/23/20 3:27 PM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: Robert Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu>, R Kirk <isobar@verizon.net> </div><div>Cc: aprssig@lists.tapr.org </div><div>Subject: Re: [aprssig] What is APRS, really? USA Coverage? </div><div><br></div></div>Looking around a feed of all digis from APRS-IS, it is sad how few digipeaters report their expected range.
<div><br></div><div>Andrew, KA2DDO</div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: spam8mybrain via aprssig <aprssig@lists.tapr.org> <br>Date: 10/23/20 15:09 (GMT-05:00) <br>To: Robert Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu>, R Kirk <isobar@verizon.net> <br>Cc: aprssig@lists.tapr.org <br>Subject: Re: [aprssig] What is APRS, really? USA Coverage? <br><br>YAAC can do it too (View->Layers...->Show Range Circles), although I'm improving it to display more obviously.
<div><br></div><div>Andrew, KA2DDO</div><div>author of YAAC</div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Robert Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu> <br>Date: 10/23/20 13:04 (GMT-05:00) <br>To: R Kirk <isobar@verizon.net> <br>Cc: aprssig@lists.tapr.org <br>Subject: Re: [aprssig] What is APRS, really? USA Coverage? <br><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div style="color:black;font:10pt arial"><div><div id="gmail-m_14099840380629497yiv4671580702"><div><div style="color:black;font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt">Apples and oranges sorta. The APRS (thin line) map is just a plot of actual position reports actually on the highways, not of "coverage",. Just widening each dot by 30 miles would still not be a "coverage" map? </div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div style="color:black;font:10pt arial"><div><div id="gmail-m_14099840380629497yiv4671580702"><div><div style="color:black;font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt"> We need the overlapping plot of the PHG circles of all digipeaters.</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I bet Lynn could do that. </div><div><br></div><div>Bob </div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div style="color:black;font:10pt arial"><div><div id="gmail-m_14099840380629497yiv4671580702"><div><div style="color:black;font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt"></div>
<div style="color:black;font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt" dir="ltr"> <span style="font-style:italic;font-weight:bold"> [Go to Google Images and try "cell phone coverage maps" to get an idea of just how much cell coverage has blossomed,... Then contrast that with the thinner APRS coverage map at Bob's <a href="http://aprs.org">aprs.org</a> site. That map was 2008 and I can't help but think it's even skimpier now that APRS has shrunk.]</span><br>
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<div>This is not to say APRS is not underutilized along with most other forms of amateur radio, but I'd rather leave the discussion of the reasons that is to others. The concept of APRS is a very, very powerful system. As Bob has been saying for how many years, it just needs to be thought of as something more than just location tracking.</div>
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<div> <span style="font-style:italic;font-weight:bold"> [Really, it is just location tracking despite the many other uses that Bob has thought of that aren't really used. Think Voice Alert, roadside traffic counting etc ...]</span></div>
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