Winterfest Hamfest object

[John Teller]

Maybe because that's all he talks about?

---JST


On 02/26/2011 01:21 AM, Howard Cunningham wrote:
> Chip
>
> Where in Bob's post did he even hint that he was selling anything?
>
> As I read his post, the entire post encourages the use of APRS by the hamfest.
>
> WD5DBC
>
> hc
>
> Howard Cunningham
> Macro Systems, LLC
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tacos-bounces+howardc=macrollc.com at amrad.org [mailto:tacos-bounces+howardc=macrollc.com at amrad.org] On Behalf Of Chip Fetrow
> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 12:19 AM
> To: tacos at amrad.org
> Subject: Winterfest Hamfest object
>
> 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
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