[OZAPRS] Field Day

[David Hopkins]

Thanks Richard,
I thought it must have been something like that.

David

At 05:21 PM 28/02/2011, you wrote:
>Hi David,
>
>>I picked up one of the handouts from the field day and there is
>>several, what looks like barcodes on the sheet.
>>
>>Can you tell me what they are for?
>
>Maybe I should answer that, seeing how I put them there :-)
>
>They are called QR (Quick Response) Codes. The Wikipedia page 
>(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code ) will tell you all you could 
>want to know about them.
>
>Basically, if you have a smart camera phone (Iphone, Android-class
>phone, Blackberry etc.) with a QR reader app installed, the phone will
>scan the code to extract the URL, email address, phone number, or
>whatever the QR code happens to contain. Then the phone can use that
>to jump to the relevant web page, etc. It saves a lot of unnecessary
>typing, and is quick, hence the name.
>
>The previous version of the cheatsheet had a page full of web URLs,
>which can be a pain to type. Most of these are on the Wikipedia APRS
>page, so it made sense to just have the addresses of that page, plus a
>few other key sites. The QR codes were just for the convenience of
>those with the necessary gizmo to read them.
>
>73 Richard VK2SKY
>
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