Winterfest Hamfest object

[wb4jfi]

Little strong, Chip?

I've never really gotten the APRS bug myself.  However, AMRAD is about 
the only place for technical innovation and promoting new technologies. 
I really don't believe that the DC area needs yet another morning & 
evening traffic repeater, that is just SO boring, I'm surprised more 
hams aren't involved in accidents because they fell asleep listening to 
the local repeater of (non) interest.  Maybe Bob's occasional BRRRRR was 
enough to wake someone up before they hit the beltway guardrail after 
listening to the umpteenth time how someone was going home to cut their 
lawn.  Golly, you can't even use the patch to order your pizza anymore!

I've known Bob for MANY years, and yes, he is the "Johnny Appleseed" of 
APRS, for better or worse.  But, hams appear to be interested in APRS, 
so he must be onto something better than a egalitarian version of CB for 
the drive home.  Come on, dress THAT pig up.

Take a chill-pill and relax.  This is the AMRAD tacos (technical?) 
reflector, not channel 19 (or 91 or 76 or 79 or u-pik-em).  I don't 
think you will get much sympathy here.

Gee, I didn't even use any of my "bad" words either!
Back to technical stuff now....
Terry

On 2/26/2011 12:19 AM, Chip Fetrow wrote:
> 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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