Scott has mentioned that he would like to add time stamps to the
packets. This should be able to be done. At the very least you could
then seen when the packet arrived (age).
IF the packet had the age, AND the tracker could read AND delete if
needed, it could READ each item individually, read the age, delete if
older than x.
Mark
KC5EVE
At 07:56 AM 10/29/2009, you wrote:
This makes me wonder.... if Garmin won't allow for deletion of
items, why not move them to 0N/0E or 0N/180W ? or 90S,0W? I'm going
to bet there's not enough memory to keep up with 40 or so waypoints
in the tracker, but it would be cool to be able to know that the
stations on your map were _current_.
Wes
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 08:15, Al Waschka
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
I have been using the setup for a month or so. The biggest drawback
that I can't figure out how to get around is you don't know when
another station was in the position plotted on the map. As long as
that person remains in range and continues to operate the position
moves. But if they run out of range, turn the radio off, or
whatever, the position you see on the map may be from an hour or
longer ago. If you drive somewhere today and drive back tomorrrow,
tomorrow you will see positions plotted today. I have managed to
mitigate that somewhat for road trips by setting maxrange in the ot2
to 25 miles and clearing out the waypoints periodically. That way I
know that as I drive any position within 25 miles of my location is
fresh. I really wish that Scott could come up with a way to age the
waypoints out of the Nuvi, but as best I can tell that would require
the OT2 to keep the full list of waypoints onboard and upload it to
the Nuvi periodically. There doesn't seem to be a way to delete
individual waypoints from the FMI.
I have never received a message. I don't see that capability as
very useful for general hamming, but it is ideal for public service
and emergency net use.
Just my opinions, others may vary.
Al K5TAN
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Wes
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