[OZAPRS] FW: [aprssig] Chicago to Mackinac Island sailboat race

[Andrew Rich]

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From: aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org
[mailto:aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org]On Behalf Of Bill Borgstrom
Sent: Tuesday, 10 July 2007 10:21 PM
To: APRS sig
Subject: [aprssig] Chicago to Mackinac Island sailboat race


This Saturday, July 14 is the start of the Chicago to Mackinac Island
sailboat race.  This race (333 statue miles) is the longest annual
freshwater sailboat race in the world.  Roy Disney, Ted Turner and Steve
Fossett have in past years participated in this race. About half the fleet
(the fleet is over 300 boats) will carry satellite tracking units.   The
trackers use the Orbcomm LEO satellite system to email boat position
reports
to a web server.  You follow the fleet on the race tracking web site:

       http://www.fistracking.com

The boat I'm racing on "Ozymandias IV"  (in  Section 7 of the race) will
be
the only boat in the race on APRS.  You can also follow me on APRS by
using
my call sign N9TN-9.

I wrote a C++ program that uses DHCP to download the Ozymandias IV
position
reports from the FISTracking SQL Server and then send the position reports
to the APRServe Network.  My position reports go out to APRServe go out
every 15 min. but the position reports from FISTracking are only updated
every 1 hour.

 Bill N9TN






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