Comments Off I just saw this commercial on the Weather Channel & it looks more like a ham-related balloon launch & recovery (via APRS?) that anything else.
Have a look-see at the vid: Continue reading 'Citibank, hams & APRS?'»
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Within the radio hobby, we have not only hams but shortwave listeners, scanner aficionados and many other specialties. And as in ham radio, each category has subcategories – a scanner listener may be interested only in trains. A shortwave listener may only want to listen for commercial RTTY stations.
Those interested in aviation now have another venue available to them that has never before been possible. Until fairly recently, aviation buffs listened to comms on a scanner & enjoyed the routine (and every-so-often, the non-routine) pattern of communications between pilots and air traffic controllers.
That has been the extent of their participation. Until now. Continue reading 'ADS-B: Aviation’s APRS'»
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