[VHFcontesting] APRS for rovers - does it help or hurt ?

[John D'Ausilio]

I believe the discussions so far would prohibit relayed APRS .. the
fixed station would have to directly receive the rover's APRS packets
..

I don't have a problem with it, but without widespread adoption it's
not something that's going to the top of my todo list for the Jitney.
SDR, reflocking, networking, etc are way above that :)

de w1rt/john

On 8/9/07, jcplatt1 at mmm.com <jcplatt1 at mmm.com> wrote:
> discussion touched on the concern that if rovers were allowed to use APRS,
> that fixed stations would be watching the Internet instead of searching &
> making noise on the VHF bands and activity looking for that (elusive)
> rover.   The concern is that allowing rovers to use APRS may actually hurt
> activity, not help it.