<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 11:38 AM R Kirk <<a href="mailto:isobar@verizon.net">isobar@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>In Puerto Rico, after Hurricane Maria, one of the most prized information assett was a map of passable and impassable roads. <span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent">It was gathered by hams.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent"> <span style="font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Don't conflate APRS with conventional ham radio which performed well. APRS was a non-factor</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Gathering the data would be a lot quicker with APRS, especially when some sections of an island may have different names for geographical landmarks!</div><div> </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"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black"><div id="gmail-m_-4880470722187290257yiv0971937021"><div dir="ltr">
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<div><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent">Here in Hawaii we demonstrated how APRS could quickly pinpoint such problems by using</span></div>
<div>HTs, some with integrated APRS and others without...</div>
<div> <span style="font-style:italic;font-weight:bold">Was that a drill? A hurricane hasn't hit Oahu in 20 years. And that was an oddity</span></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Can you tell me who many times in the last 4 years Oahu has been in a hurricane warning? Evidently not!</div><div>This little set of islands in the middle of a large ocean values preparation!</div><div> </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"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black"><div id="gmail-m_-4880470722187290257yiv0971937021"><div dir="ltr">
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<div><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent">...The DoD is even getting into APRS-similar portable services for battlefield management.</span><br>
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<div> <span style="font-style:italic;font-weight:bold"> Time flies when you're having fun. DOD (Navy) is not getting, but GOT into that business over half a century ago. The Navy Tactical Data System (NTDS) was a pioneering unconnected data sharing system. I believe Bob Bruninga was involved. My suspicion is that NTDS was the germ for the idea of APRS. (Bob?).</span></div>
<div><div id="gmail-m_-4880470722187290257yiv0971937021yqtfd48236"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="color:black;font-variant:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10pt;line-height:normal;font-family:arial"><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black"><br clear="none"></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks for admitting that APRS like services are relevant!</div><div>Craig/KH6CP </div></div></div>