Hi,
Well I'm a little late to this thread but a starting point for a database
of repeaters for the GPS might be here:
http://www.poi-factory.com/taxonomy/term/40
Although some files seem old it is still useful in that in a new area it
shows 90% or more of the repeaters with no effort.
Getting the data to program the radio would be a neat and very useful
trick. Since radios are starting to have GPS's built in maybe the next
generation will be capable of loading on demand all repeaters within a radius
based on positional data. That would be a feature that would entice me to buy
a new HT and mobile radio as soon as that was available.
73,
Bob
K2TK ex KN2TKR (1956) & K2TKR
________________________________
From: Phil Hystad <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected] Reflector" <[email protected]> Sent:
Tuesday, September 10, 2013 9:46 AM
Subject: [Elecraft] Slightly Off-Topic: Roving update of default repeater
station
This question has nothing to do with Elecraft rigs (well, possibly remotely if I
assume a KX3 as mobile with the future to be provided 2-meter option).
Yesterday I drove to Portland from my QTH of Kirkland near Seattle. This is a 3
1/2 hour trip down I-5 (and, the return). In the Seattle area, I had my 2-meter
mobile rig in my truck sitting on a repeater frequency but it was not too long
before I was out of range of that repeater. I wondered briefly about changing
to some nearby closer repeater but it was not that important to me but I started
thinking about an automated way to do this.
I have GPS in various guises with my Truck (iPhone, iPad, and my little Garmin
GPS at times), so what if I had a way of extracting location, looking up
location of nearest repeater in my database (if I had one), and then having a
interface to my rig to update the repeater frequency, split offset, tone, etc.
All very possible.
So, my question: Does such a thing now exist? I don't pay enough attention to
repeater-life to know what other hams may have already created?
73, phil, K7PEH
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