<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><base href="data:"><div style="text-align: left; ">Hi all,</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="text-align: left; ">I heard the following program on ABC NewsRadio (originally from BBC World Service), and it might be of interest to my fellow APRS fans.</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="text-align: left; ">Pachube (pronounced "Patch-bay") is a platform for attaching devices to the web, similar to the way we do weather stations on APRS. The particular application discussed in the program is Japanese people feeding live radiation data from the areas affected by the recent quake / tsunami.</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00fvkxf#p00g517k">Crowdsourcing Japan radiation levels</a> (<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00fvkxf#p00g517k">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00fvkxf#p00g517k</a>)</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="text-align: left; ">(The audio is about 5.46 in duration.)</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="text-align: left; ">The main Pachube web site is at <a href="http://www.pachube.com/">http://www.pachube.com/</a>. Wikipedia also has a good intro page at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachube">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachube</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="text-align: left; ">APRS to Pachube gateway anyone? :-)</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="text-align: left; ">73 Richard V2SKY</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; 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 style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; 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; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; 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; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>____</div><div><a href="mailto:Richard.Murnane@internode.on.net">Richard.Murnane@internode.on.net</a></div><div><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: italic; ">"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." - Albert Einstein</span></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span> </div><br></body></html>