Winterfest Hamfest object

[Chip Fetrow]

Sadly, Bob Bruninga is constantly selling his products.

I used to get angry at him for selling on my repeater.  He would come  
up on the repeater with his BRRRRR. and once someone asked about it,  
he would SELL them the device.

When challenged, he would continue to sell unless his daughter was in  
the car and he was embarrassed.

He once gave me shit on MY repeater and said he would personally pay  
to put his crap on our repeater.  Once I told him, because of the  
site, it would cost over $3,500 in combining costs he shut the heck up  
and went away.

He is an ass.  He is just trying to make money for himself.

--chip

On Feb 24, 2011, at 11:16 AM, tacos-request at amrad.org wrote:

> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:54:45 -0500
> From: "Bob Bruninga" <bruninga at usna.edu>
> To: <tablesales2011 at viennawireless.org>
> Cc: tacos at amrad.org, Bob Bruninga <bruninga at usna.edu>
> Subject: Winterfest Hamfest object

> Some APRS operator in the Vienna Wireless organization needs to be  
> putting
>>
> out a HAMFEST object to alert all APRS mobiles of the hamfest.   
> There are
> Several things that all hamfest planners should be doing:
>
> 1) Start beaconing the object on the air starting 2 weeks prior
>   a) the object name would be HFEST-26a (shows the date)"a" is the  
> first
> one this weekend.
>   b) The object text contains 146.91 MHz so that mobiles can  
> instantly TUNE
> to the talk-in by pressing the auto-QSY button on their APRS radios
>
> 2) Place the GPS coordinates on ALL hamfest flyers and literature
>
> 3) Plan on having a PC (with internet set to APRS.FI) or a stand- 
> alone APRS
> laptop at the talk-in operating position.  This way the talk-in  
> operator can
> SEE what is going on out there, and where everyone is.  This  
> tremendously
> assists him in helping people.
>
> 4) Once a day in the week prior, also send out APRS bulletins  
> announcing the
> event.
>
> Now that there are a total of 8 fully integrated APRS radios on the  
> market,
> everyone can see this info on their radio front panels.    BUT ONLY  
> IF THE
> ORGANIZERS TX IT.
>
> I'll put a sample object on the air here from Annapolis, but I'll be  
> gone
> Friday and all weekend, so I cannot maintain it nor assist with all  
> the
> other APRS details.
>
> Please have your APRS folks review the APRS HAMFEST web page:
>
> www.aprs.org/hamfest.html
>
> Bob, WB4APR