[OZAPRS] Hi everyone a little about me and where I'm at with APRS.

[Philip Webb]

Hi Grant,

Welcome to the fraternity.

Depending on your full range of interests, you might want to know about 
the Linuxham group and the Xastir group - both on Yahoo groups.com.

73

Philip
VK4HPW


On 05/01/11 12:44, Grant Diffey wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> I recently got my F call (VK3FBAE) I bought a new toy for X-mas which 
> is a VX-8DR
>
> QTH is melbourne and I've got reception of APRS packets on 145.175 
> working (other than the included antenna being horrific.) I havn't 
> been able to get reception on 439.100 at all.
>
> Currently studying for the advanced upgrade. (then I can use 6m and 
> data modes.)
>
> Background is computers linux etc and I see a few familiar names about.
>
> In other news I'm very much looking forwar to LCA 
> <http://linux.conf.au> particularly the miniconfs.
>
> I'm purchasing a Telemetrum <http://www.altusmetrum.org/TeleMetrum/> 
> from bdale to fly in the Rocketry Miniconf 
> <http://conf.linux.org.au/wiki/Miniconfs/RocketMiniconf> and that's 
> driving some of the desire for the licence upgrade
>
> Additionally I'm involved in the melbourne community hackerspace who 
> are strongly aligned with the arduino miniconf 
> <http://conf.linux.org.au/wiki/Miniconfs/ArduinoMiniconf> one of the 
> projects for which this year is a Sensor board 
> <http://www.freetronics.com/products/mobsendat> for rocketry and 
> ballooning.  it might be interesting to write APRS txing firmware for 
> such a thing.
>
> Grant.
>
>
>
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