On 06/06/07, John Ronan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Nice story. any photos? I always like to see photos of the
> tool/hardware in operation.
> I was involved with a hillwalking festival at the weekend in Ireland,
> which was tracking walkers, some being licensed operators.
>
Many thanks for coming down to help Bernard, always appreciated.
You're welcome John. I really enjoyed it. Like we said above, its
great when you can actually put your hobby to good use.
I'll be looking for another one soon.
I'm still shattered after the weekend and I wasn't even walking.
I have some pictures of various parts of the weekend available here.
http://picasaweb.google.com/jpronans/2007GalteeWalkingFestival
Stomping bugs and second guessing yourself will do that!
We had two Mobile OT2 Digipeaters (EI8EPB-2 and EI3RCW-1), 5 portable
trackers (two stopped working)
We were also using this weekend to 'test' some software we are
developing with the South East Mountain Rescue Association, its is
only 'pre-alpha' (and it showed at various times) but they were quite
happy and asked us back for another trial later in the year. They
are only just getting used to the system themselves (Simoco SRP9130
Radio's with GPS Microphone). We had 7 SEMRA Radio's out at various
stages... two of them seemed to be programmed incorrectly and two had
duff batteries. They appear as numbers in xastir's map (we were
making them appear as APRS stations as well).
This is the interesting part - that APRS can be applied to a serious
area like SAR comms, and I am sure at a fraction of the cost too.
Lets see how the beta version pans out.
All in all APRS and xastir made the weekend safer for everyone.
Definately.
Well done John on carrying it off so successfully.
thanks
bernard
EI8FDB
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