The TAPR manual I have was revised in May 1997. I am going to pursue
this out of curiosity more than anything else.

Dick - W6CCD

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 08:38:00 +0100, Roger Barker
wrote:

In article , Dick
writes
I am just starting to explore the world of APRS, so I am feeling my
way along here. As I understand from reading the manuals for the
TinyTrak and MIC-E tnc's, there are repeaters that can extract the
APRS tone burst when making a voice contact on a normal repeater and
rebroadcast it into the APRS system. I assume it would be like a
digipeater on 144.39.

What you are talking about is described in MIC-E.TXT, which is one of
the documents distributed by WB4APR with his DOS APRS package. I think
it was originally written about 10 years ago.

From the comments being made, it sounds like you folks over there never
implemented the idea?

The TAPR manual I have was revised in May 1997. I am going to pursue
this out of curiosity more than anything else.

Dick - W6CCD

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 08:38:00 +0100, Roger Barker
wrote:

In article , Dick
writes
I am just starting to explore the world of APRS, so I am feeling my
way along here. As I understand from reading the manuals for the
TinyTrak and MIC-E tnc's, there are repeaters that can extract the
APRS tone burst when making a voice contact on a normal repeater and
rebroadcast it into the APRS system. I assume it would be like a
digipeater on 144.39.

What you are talking about is described in MIC-E.TXT, which is one of
the documents distributed by WB4APR with his DOS APRS package. I think
it was originally written about 10 years ago.

From the comments being made, it sounds like you folks over there never
implemented the idea?

I've been thinking about this recently to try and bridge two activities.
With a decent setup, I can do APRS or I can work a repeater. I don't have
all the gear so I haven't tried real APRS yet. My thought is that I'm not
concerned with a VHF station in California when I'm local in Florida. All
I'm really interested in is the local picture. So, would it work to move a
digital picture over a local repeater and remain capable to speak? If
that's true, why wouldn't we do it locally? Pros? Cons?
This might even spark more repeater traffic since a) you'd see folks on
the display or b) you'd hear signs of life even if you don't have APRS.
o_o_o_o
Best Regards, /| ,[_____],
Jim, WP3JQ |¯¯¯L --O|||||||O-
()_)¯()_) ¯¯¯¯¯ )_)
EM60qk 30.447439N 086.628959W

I've been thinking about this recently to try and bridge two activities.
With a decent setup, I can do APRS or I can work a repeater. I don't have
all the gear so I haven't tried real APRS yet. My thought is that I'm not
concerned with a VHF station in California when I'm local in Florida. All
I'm really interested in is the local picture. So, would it work to move a
digital picture over a local repeater and remain capable to speak? If
that's true, why wouldn't we do it locally? Pros? Cons?
This might even spark more repeater traffic since a) you'd see folks on
the display or b) you'd hear signs of life even if you don't have APRS.
o_o_o_o
Best Regards, /| ,[_____],
Jim, WP3JQ |¯¯¯L --O|||||||O-
()_)¯()_) ¯¯¯¯¯ )_)
EM60qk 30.447439N 086.628959W