<div dir="ltr">Not even referencing other advantages or disadvantages, you're leaving out the part about cell phones not being a reliable form of communication across a fairly large part of the country and/or world. Outside of large cities and a mile or two off the interstates is a much different world than most of theĀ population are acquainted to.<div><br></div><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><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 8:46 AM R Kirk via aprssig <<a href="mailto:aprssig@lists.tapr.org" target="_blank">aprssig@lists.tapr.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div style="color:black;font:10pt arial">Alas, it's a now obsolete hobby where amateur radio operators could track other's mobile positions. An exclusive niche beyond what the general public could do. Some other potential applications, which never caught on. Now overtaken by anyone with a cell phone.
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Subject: [aprssig] What is APRS, really?<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Someone asked me for a quick summary of APRS and I had no answer.
<div>There is so much written it is a tidal wave not just a firehose. ...</div>
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