Article: 50958 of rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc From: Mike Subject: Field Day 2005 Message-ID: <_Jeve.106378$on1.23079@clgrps13> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 15:27:54 GMT Hope to see everyone on the air. I will be working with my club http://narc.net and our call will be VE6RAC from Edmonton Alberta. We intend on doing all bands & modes including SSB, CW, RTTY and will even do FM on 6m & above for folks with only those rigs. Will attempt a QSO with some satellite. Best wishes and good luck on Field Day 2005! 73 de Mike VE6HMG Article: 50959 of rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc From: Dr. Anton T. Squeegee Subject: Re: winaprs vs acarsd Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 09:30:12 -0700 Message-ID: References: In article , Mebart <> says... < Top-posting corrected. Please don't top-post on Usenet newsgroups! See this link for the reason why: http://www.html-faq.com/etiquette/?toppost > > On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 16:38:42 GMT, Panzer240 > wrote: > > >Mebart <> wrote in news:e9uab1lhs9b07ojjad82do11obstpprras@4ax.com: > > > >> How much does winaprs and aprsair cost to register??? > >> > >> I want to display airline flights that transmit on 131 Mhz for the > >> purpose of propagation monitoring only and don't need any of the > >> packet functions. > >> > >> So, I'm trying to decide whether to get aprs/aprsair or whether to > >> just get acarsd (which is free, but doesn't require a tnc, but has > >> less options for mapping). > >> > >> M > >> > > > >You might also look at WACARS here: > > > >http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Cockpit/9870/wacars/readme.html > > > >Freeware and you can use your own maps if memory serves :) There should be > >information on the above site for creating your own maps. > WACARS appears to be unsupported, and won't run on anything newer than > win9X. > I can't use it as I have XP. > Can't find the homepage either. I beg to differ. WACARS runs just fine on my Windows 2000 Pro- based laptop, and before that I had it running great on Win-NT 4.0. A simple Google search turned up the home page at: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Cockpit/9870/wacars/intro.html I've tested that link. It works fine from WA state. If you're unable to reach it, your ISP may (for whatever reason) be blocking it. He does, admittedly, have some broken links. 'Registration' doesn't go anywhere, and no images come up with the 'Screen shots' link, but everything else seems OK. Happy tweaking. -- Dr. Anton T. Squeegee, Director, Dutch Surrealist Plumbing Institute. (Known to some as Bruce Lane, ARS KC7GR, kyrrin (a/t) bluefeathertech[d=o=t]calm -- www.bluefeathertech.com "If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped with surreal ports?" Article: 50960 of rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc From: "O. B. Madsen" Subject: 50 MHz Contest inviatation Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 20:40:13 +0200 Message-ID: <90ebb$42bef67d$55da9d71$29256@nf4.news-service.com> =20 Contest - Accumulative. As from new year 2005 the Nordic activity contest (NAC 50 MHz) will = move from 4 th. tuesday in the month. As there have been a contest round = for the last 14 years at the present date/time, we feel a valuable activity will be lost by = moving it. Therefor the OZ50MHz Group have decided to establish an = accumulative contest at the present evening so "business as usual" can be maintained.=20 To keep things as simple as possible, we will have rules very close to = the NAC. This means an Open class high power and an Open class low power = section, a OZ high power and a OZ low power section. Contest calendar 2005.=20 January 25 th. 18-22 CET / 18-22 UT February 22 th. 18-22 CET / 18-22 UT March 22 th. 18-22 CET / 18-22 UT April 26 th. 18-22 CET / 17-21 UT May 24 th. 18-22 CET / 17-21 UT June 28 th. 18-22 CET / 17-21 UT July 26 th. 18-22 CET / 17-21 UT August 23 rd. 18-22 CET / 17-21 UT September 27 th. 18-22 CET / 17-21 UT October 25 th. 18-22 CET / 17-21 UT November 22 nd. 18-22 CET / 18-22 UT December 27 th. 18-22 CET / 18-22 UT =20 Rules - Open class 2005. =20 Participants. OZ50MHz Group hereby invites all licensed radio amateurs outside = Denmark to participate in the OZ50MHz Accumulative Contest - Open Class. =20 =20 Date & time. Fourth Tuesday in every month - 19:00-23:00 CET/Danish local time. = (Never at December 24 th. or 25 th.) =20 =20 Section. OCHP. Open Class 50 MHz - High power > 100 w. OCLP. Open Class 50 MHz - Low power < 100 w. Single and multi operators participate in same sections. =20 =20 Contacts. Each contacted station counts only ones even if it is /A, /P etc.=20 Duplicates must not be deleted from the log, but shall be listed as a = normal QSO with zero (0) points. In case points are claimed for a = duplicate QSO, ten times the claimed points will be deducted. All operation in accordance with IARU Region 1 bandplans. No contacts = via active repeaters or EME are allowed. =20 =20 Exhange. RS(T) and Locator, e.g. 59 JO55WW. No QSO no. is needed! =20 =20 Points. 1 point/km + 500 bonus points per WWL. =20 =20 Awards. In the annual result only the nine best contests are evaluated. The = first three stations in each section, and the best station in each = country, will receive an OZ50MHz Contest Award. =20 =20 Entries. Logs must be received no later than a week after the contest at the = OZ50MHz Group. Logs received later than that will be used as check logs. Logs may be submitted electronically to the contest manager, = oz50mhz@qrz.dk O. Bj=F8rn Madsen, OZ6OM Falen 35, 3 tv. DK-5000 Odense Denmark =20 Results. The contest results can be seen at = http://www.qsl.net/oz7six/OZ50MHzResults.html