Also used for APRS: http://aprs.fi/#!lat=36.14150&lng=-86.85990
That gives position, altitude and can be used for messaging too. If you look close enough you can sometimes find a call from an NLUG member there. Winlink uses more than just packet. It was just one of the more common modes that is still in use. There is also email capability over the air using PSKMail: http://pskmail.wikispaces.com/ Dave On Fri, 2014-03-28 at 12:50 -0500, Mark J. Bailey wrote: > Ham radio digital packet (basically, AX.25) - > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_radio > > > > It used to be very prominent then Internet came along. :) Still used a > lot for a fairly resilient over the air messaging system called > ‘Winlink’ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winlink) and for a GPS > location system called > ‘APRS’ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Packet_Reporting_System) which > is a lot like ACARS for mobile ham radio operators (mostly for coordinating > emergency response activities). If you can tune VHF (like with a police > scanner), you can hear area traffic on 144.390 in the Middle Tennessee > region. What you will hear on that frequency is 1200 baud packet > transmissions. There’s a few web sites that collects and provides others a > way to monitor the APRS stations being tracked by the system and collected > centrally. http://aprs.fi/ and http://www.openaprs.net/ are a couple I like > to use. > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Csaba Toth > Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 12:40 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [nlug] Red Hat Reveals CentOS Plans > > > > What is a packet operation? > > On Mar 28, 2014 9:09 AM, "Alex Smith (K4RNT)" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Doug moved like November or December of last year. I believe he did > take his packet operations, I'm not sure. You'd be best to contact > David Wilson to see if he left anything behind or bequeathed anything > to someone else in Rutherford County. > > > > " ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech > censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, > chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron > Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is > trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron > Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" > - Alex Smith > - Dulles Technology Corridor (Chantilly/Ashburn/Dulles), Virginia USA > > > > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Mark J. Bailey <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Alex, > > > > When did Doug move??? I assume he took his packet ops with him? I had > not heard he had left. > > > > Mark > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Alex Smith (K4RNT) > Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 10:05 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [nlug] Red Hat Reveals CentOS Plans > > > > Fun. I'm planning on deploying Scientific Linux or Oracle Enterprise > Linux on the servers I'm going to provide one of my ham radio friends > in West Virginia (Doug Lowe, N1EMP, formerly lived in La Vergne). I > have two rackmount servers (two Sun Fire X4100s) that I bought on > surplus auction, and I'd like to give to him. I'm planning on SL/OEL > bare metal, with VirtualBox running a couple of Windows Server VMs. He > has some software that will work on Linux, and others that are Windows > only. > > > > " ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech > censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, > chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron > Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is > trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron > Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" > - Alex Smith > - Dulles Technology Corridor (Chantilly/Ashburn/Dulles), Virginia USA > > > > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:55 AM, John R. 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