Posted on October 16, 2009 by apitts
HP website story at: www.hp.com/go/hamradiostory.
“VE2DXY” is an Amateur Radio contesting team. 2009 “core team” members are Bill Ballantine K3FMQ, Andy Vavra KD3RF/VE2DXY, Irwin Darack KD3TB, Sebastien Jean VE2GTZ and Ken Nicely N3PSJ. Information about them and past DXpeditions (taking Amateur Radio into unusual and often wilderness areas) is available at http://www.wix.com/andyvavra/VE2DXY
They have done mini-DXpeditions into [...]
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Posted on April 14, 2008 by apitts
Sure your dashboard GPS might tell you where you are. But how about seeing and tracking where other people are located in real time?
Long-time packeteer Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, developed the Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS), which allows packet radio to track real-time events. It deviates markedly from the usual message- and text-transfer activity. Instead, APRS [...]
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