Mark Phillips wrote:
> Here in Manhattan I have started a APRServe thing using Dales aprsd but
> as yet I'm unable to do anything usefull with the data under Linux as
> there is no client end.
>
This fellow is writing something:
http://www.eazy.net/users/fgiannan/xaprs/index.html
No idea as to when it will be available.
>As for DGPS, why aren't we using the same qrg for it as aprs (I may have
> missed the explanation for this)?
There basically
is one method being used for DGPS on ham radio these days, you
take a $250 oncore and a $180 PIC board and marry them to your
radio. Then you broadcast these corrections on the aprs frequency.
> DGPS is available over the net and
> people like me and Dale have access to it without too much hassle. Why
> can it not be made available via something like aprsd (sorry Dale, I'm
> not taking a pop at you)?
I think a number of people are working on something like that, you of
course mean taking the DGPS feed off the internet and sending it over
the air, I take it?
Hope that helps
-Jeff