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 RD>>> If you have seen the news then you know what has been going on up
 II> Understood.  I read, (and crossposted AND saved!), an account by Rob
 II> Dennis, (another VE), about how the Hams got into the act up in Eastern
 I have a twin somehwere?!
 II>   It's really a mess!  Even in Maine, there were still people
 II> without power 10 days after the storm passed!  I'm certain that the Ham
 II> activities saved a lot of lives, not to mention carrying a lot of health
 In some places amateur radio was THE only way to get any messages or 
information out to those trying to help.
 The powers-that-be in some places had all their great plans for using the 
cell-system trashed when many a cell-site tower took a thud to the ground and 
the surviving systems became severly overloaded when people lost their 
regular phone service.
 At one point a local AM radio station was asking people to stay OFFof their
cell phones as the systems were need for emergency use.
 So much for High-Tech.
 II>> been over a week.  Several have died, from hypothermia or CO...
 RD>> Same thing here. People running a generator INSIDE the house and
 RD>> running a wood stove with a partly-blocked chimney.
 II> Their brains must have been half-frozen to even CONSIDER using such CO
 II> generators inside!   :-<
 When someone is trying to survive in a 10 degree Celsius or less house they 
will do anything to stay warm and not necessarily the most sane of things.
 One family lost their home when their fireplace over-heated from so much 
se,
nearly 24 hours a day for 2 weeks,the floor in the house and caused it to 
catch fire.
 II>> ...  I hope you find the twit and give
 RD>> It is one of local idiots who has done the same stunts before.
 RD>> They will be delt with shortly.
 II> 'Bout time, huh?  IMO, the time to deal with morons like that is BEFORE
 II> there's a communications emergency.  Reminds me of something that 
happened
 II> back in my 11 M days... A good friend was on his way home from work, and
 II> he stopped accross the intersection from a school bus discharging kids.
 II> Just as one little girl ran out in front of the bus to get to her 
iting
 A similiar thing happend here a few years back about 2 or 3 am.
 A guy was driving along a road and found a car upside down in the ditch and 
had a person trapped inside it in about 3 feet of water.
 He called for help on the local 11m channels and someone thought it was a 
joke call and decided to jam him.
 It took one of the smarties buddies telling him he had just heard the call 
on a scanner and that is was not fake to smarten him up.
 During the 20 to 30 minutes this twit jammed the person drowned.
 That smarty wasn't so smart about emergency calls after that.
 Somehow his co-ax and antenna did a late-night thud within that week,but he 
never said much about revenge over it.
 RD>>> This was NOT the time nor the place to be an idiot and this jack-ass
 II>> The RIGHT time to pull crap like that is _NEVER_, but some people just
 II>> can't understand that.  What kind of a sadist does it take...?
 RD>> No sadist Ivy.
 RD>> This jerk...
 II> Don't insult jerks.   :-/
 Ok... the IDIOT.. or something close to an anal orfice..
 RD>> the tracking team that was active just for this sort of thing.
 II> Heh heh... I hope you nailed him good!
 Not yey.. but soon.
 RD>> What chip is it?  I can look it up in my cross referances and see if
 RD>> it it still available.
 II> It's a CD4047.  It puts out a complimentary square wave, (One output 
ine
 II> R and C.  My old (1987) ECG Semiconductors Master Replacement Guide 
ists
 II> ECG4047B as a replacemwnt.  It's a monostable/astable multivibrator in a
 Still avaliable as of late-1997.
 Radio Shack may also have it under the plain 4047.
 It is a CMOS chip and static snesitive so be careful with it.
 RD>>> It would if there were enough people willing ot take the time to
 RD>>> learn how to  use the APRS software to do DF-ing.
 II> To learn it ya gotta have the equipment, (well, I s'poze booklearning 
works
 II> too), and to have the equipment ya gotta have the money.  I have all but
 Any computer running DOS can run the software alone.
 For the DF part of APRS you only need the software and one fixed station
with several mobiles to do a DF job.
 The version of APRS I have has several text fiels which go into the detail 
of how the DF can be done with APRS.
 For a full-blown APRS set-up you only need the APRS software,a TNC and your 
latitude and longtitude if you plan to run only a fixed APRS station.
 Since my APRS set-up is fixed and my lat-long is known I'm ook.
 It is when you want to go and run APRS mobile that a GPRS is needed.
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