<html><head><base href="x-msg://1015/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">G'day Nik,<div><br></div><div>Welcome to APRS :)</div><div><br></div><div>No registration required (though you will need to generate the passcode which matches your callsign, if you use software to connect to any of the APRS servers), only suggestion is for new users to make sure their QRZ detail are up to date, incase there's some issue with their radio setup which the local area coordinator needs to get onto them for (but I see your details are all up to date, so that's all good!)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Damien</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 27/01/2011, at 6:26 PM, Nik Presser wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><font face="Calibri" color="#0000ff">G'day all on the list,</font></div><div><font face="Calibri" color="#0000ff"></font> </div><div><font face="Calibri" color="#0000ff">I'm new to APRS and I'm picking up a new TM-D710A in the next day or so. It'll mainly be for APRS purposes.</font></div><div><font face="Calibri" color="#0000ff"></font> </div><div><font face="Calibri" color="#0000ff">Do I have to register my callsign/s with APRS anywhere like we do with D-Star, or is it just a matter of setting up the appropriate callsign & suffix with an SSID, paths and off I go?</font></div><div><font face="Calibri" color="#0000ff"></font> </div><div><font face="Calibri" color="#0000ff">I've perused the VK APRS website but there's no mention of registering.</font></div><div><font face="Calibri" color="#0000ff"></font> </div><div><font face="Calibri" color="#0000ff">Thanks.</font></div><div><font face="Calibri" color="#0000ff"></font> </div><div><font face="Calibri" color="#0000ff">Cheers,</font></div><div><font face="Calibri" color="#0000ff"></font> </div><div><font face="Calibri" color="#0000ff">Nik Presser<br>VK3BA<br>Geelong<br><a href="http://www.qrz.com/callsign/VK3BA">http://www.qrz.com/callsign/VK3BA</a></font></div>_______________________________________________<br>OZAPRS mailing list<br><a href="mailto:OZAPRS@aprs.net.au">OZAPRS@aprs.net.au</a><br><a href="http://lists.aprs.net.au/mailman/listinfo/ozaprs">http://lists.aprs.net.au/mailman/listinfo/ozaprs</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>