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<p>Ok Stephen, I have marked your trip in my note book. At this time
I can xmit and rec using VARA and only rec using packet. If you go
through Manistique, say HI to my old hometown. Have safe trip.</p>
<p>73, Denis</p>
<p>WB8SKP<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/6/2024 11:11 AM, Stephen H Smith
via aprssig wrote:<br>
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<p><font face="Arial">Over the period 8 October 2024 to 26
October 2024, I will be on another extensive road trip,
running HF APRS both over classic AX.25 packet, and over
VARA. <br>
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<p><font face="Arial">A friend of mine is flying from Los Angeles
to Chicago on the 8th. I will then take her for a fall color
tour of northern Michigan, before driving her back to Los
Angeles. This will be a long looping itinerary west from
Michigan on I-80 to the Mississippi River, then south
following the Great River Road (the secondary roads along the
banks of the Mississippi) to New Orleans. Then west across
Texas to northern New Mexico, southern Colorado and Arizona
back to Calfornia. For anyone wanting to log four states in
one transmission, I will be stopping at the "4-Corners" point
on the Navajo Nation where Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and
Arizona meet at one point. <br>
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<p><font face="Arial">I will be operating HF exclusively on 30
meters this time (no 60 meters tests). As in the past I will
use multiple SSIDs:<br>
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<p><font face="Arial"> - WA8LMF (no SSID) is 2M VHF 144.39 and
direct-to-Internet cellular data.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial"> - WA8LMF-2 is 30M HF conventional
300-baud AX.25 packet APRS</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial"> - WA8LMF-3 is 30M HF APRS-over-VARA</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">Because these are full desktop-type APRS
installations (3 instances of UIview) running on my
newly-commisioned Panasonic CF-53 "Toughbook" mobile laptop in
the car, I can receive APRS messages on any of the three
modes. As before, the mobile rig is a Yaesu FT-891 running
into a 30 -meter Quicksilver Radio "QuickStick" hamstick-type
mono-band whip. <br>
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<p><font face="Arial">My personal APRS
igate/mapping-webservers will be following my trip at:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="http://WA8LMF.net/map" moz-do-not-send="true"><http://WA8LMF.net/map></a><br>
(These displays only show what my home station in central
Michigan (East Lansing area) is hearing OFF-THE-AIR -- not
from the Internet.)<br>
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<p><font face="Arial">Additionally, my new "RoadTrip Tracker" page
at <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="http://WA8LMF.net/RoadTrip" moz-do-not-send="true"><http://WA8LMF.net/RoadTrip></a>
<br>
will provide a series of fixed-scale shaded-relief maps of the
trip. The road trip tracker uses a combination of off-the-air
reception and the APRS Internet feed. </font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial">30 meters normally has a skip zone of
250-300 miles; I.e. my home station in Michigan could never
hear anything CLOSER than about Chicago, Cincinnati or
Toronto, Ontario. Travels anywhere inside Michigan were never
heard by my 30M igates when I was the ONLY APRS-over-VARA
igate on the air. </font><font face="Arial"><br>
Now that WA7GMX in the state of Washington, and WB8SKP in
western Kentucky now appear to be running full-time
APRS-over-VARA igates on 30 meters as well, the HF coverage
should be much more consistent everywhere, even inside
Michigan, then in the past. My trip up north in Michigan
should be heard and igated by one or both of these other
stations. (Assuming another solar explosion/geomagnetic storm
doesn't wipe out HF entirely!) </font><font face="Arial"> <br>
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<hr width="100%" size="2"><font face="Arial">Stephen H. Smith
wa8lmf (at) aol.com <br>
Skype: WA8LMF<br>
EchoLink: Node # 14400 [Think bottom of the 2-meter band]<br>
Home Page: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wa8lmf.net" moz-do-not-send="true">http://wa8lmf.net</a><br>
<br>
APRS-over-VARA igates now operating on 30 & 60 meters<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="http://WA8LMF.net/map" moz-do-not-send="true"><http://WA8LMF.net/map></a><br>
<br>
"Studio B" Ham Shack on Wheels<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="http://WA8LMF.net/Aliner" moz-do-not-send="true"><http://WA8LMF.net/Aliner></a><br>
<br>
-- APRS over VARA --<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="http://wa8lmf.net/APRSoverVARA." moz-do-not-send="true"><http://wa8lmf.net/APRSoverVARA.></a><br>
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