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-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Bruninga Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 10:27 AM To: 'TAPR APRS Mailing List' Subject: [aprssig] APRS Golden Packet Event 25 July Golden Packet Event, 25 July 2010: Pacific Coast Paths are forming, but we need many more teams to make the links. Including - Washington site - Oregon - N. of Bay area - SE of Monterey and W of Bakersfield - Around LA See www.aprs.org/pct-golden-packet.html Appalachian trail groups are re-forming. Please confirm your plans this year and any updates needed to the web pages. But last year we had no teams for these areas: Mount Katahdin in Maine Central Maine Central NH Sam's point New York Comer's Rock Va See www.aprs.org/at-golden-packet.html Bob, Wb4APR _______________________________________________ aprssig mailing list [email protected] https://www.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Langdon Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 6:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Proposal for a DStar experiment. If we do the same thing down here, the message will probably be carried by rovers most of the wa Sent from my iPhone On 02/07/2010, at 8:18 AM, John Hays <[email protected]> wrote: If going from NE to SW (as proposed) you will need to take into account time zones. East 11 AM - 1 PM Central 10 AM - 12 PM Mountain 9 AM - 11 AM Pacific 8 AM - 10 AM What would be cool is to add a website where you enter in your QSOs including time and LAT/LON and have it plot all of the paths via Google Maps. Due to the geography of the mountain time zone, you might want to encourage some "rovers" going to mountain tops or high ridges. On Jul 1, 2010, at 2:10 PM, Francis Miele wrote: I like it!! I think a Sunday morning works, say between 8am and noon in the local time zone. Fran, W1FJM John D. Hays Amateur Radio Station K7VE <http://k7ve.org> PO Box 1223 Edmonds, WA 98020-1223 VOIP/SIP: [email protected] Phone: 206-801-0820 801-790-0950
