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<td width=100% bgcolor=white><font size=3 face="Arial">Rod's recent post
about Tom Heifner's hiking trip had a link to <br>
findu.com. There is some good information there, but also try and
poke<br>
around at: </font><a href=http://www.db0anf.de/app/aprs target=_blank><font size=3 color=#000066 face="Arial"><u>www.db0anf.de/app/aprs</u></font></a><font size=3 face="Arial"><br>
This sight is a little slow, so have patience. However, it displays
different<br>
types of information that you can't easily get at findu. Type in
Tom's call <br>
as WE0F-5. DB0ANF won't let you use a wild card SSID like findu will.<br>
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Anyway, his last report was about 2 days ago, probably as he left his <br>
vehicle to head out into the wilderness. From the onset, we expected
the<br>
odds of many packets to be low. Searching for nearby activity revealed
only<br>
a few hits, and the closest digi's are about 25 miles away, across some
pretty<br>
rocky terrain. 'Rocky' both in terms of traversing the terrain, and
RF propagation</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Arial">across such terrain.<br>
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I provided him with a portable digi he was going to leave running in his
car.<br>
He will connect it to his normal mobile 2M antenna. The thought was
if his <br>
portable/hiking packets could make it back to his car,<br>
the portable digi would have a better chance of reaching any other nearby
<br>
digi. 'Chance' as used here is reckoned to be between 0 and 25%.
However, <br>
it would cost him nothing to leave it running, and it just might squirt
out a <br>
few bits. The portable digi is battery operated, and should run just
about as<br>
long as he plans to be out there: about 6 days. We didn't want
to use vehicle<br>
battery power, just in case it might run his car battery down. Bad
scene in<br>
the wilderness of western Canada. At the present, it doesn't appear
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After his stint with the bears in Branff Park, he moseys on over to another<br>
park for 3 more days of communing with nature. During that time,
he will <br>
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