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Hobbies on the Road
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we travel, we do more than just drive! RV'ing lends itself well to the
pursuit of other interests as well. Here are some of the things that we
have been doing.
Read about our travel and sightseeing on the Travel Log page. Traveling often lends itself to exciting culinary adventures! Read about ours in Road Food.
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website doesn't just happen. Every day I edit and enter our photos and a
log of what we have done. I update the site whenever I can get a modem
hookup.
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Where
are we, exactly? APRS*, or automatic Position Reporting System, is a software package that enables us to display our exact position as it is determined by GPS and transmitted by packet radio. Packet radio is a digital form of amateur radio communication that uses airwaves to transmit packets of digital information to other other amateur radio packet stations. Some packet stations serve as gateways to the internet, allowing us to display our current position on specific websites. The position links that I offer here are links to one such website!
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HERE to see our last updated position! *APRS is a software package and a registered trademark owned by Bob Bruninga, WB4APR. What if it says that there is no position report for us? Have we dropped off the earth? Most likely not. What has probably happened is that we are out of range of a repeater that can transmit our GPS packet information. This happens sometimes in remote areas. Another possibility is that the APRS station through which we are trying to transmit is down. When this happens, it can be down for a day or more, but hang with us. We will be back online soon! You can always get a pretty clear idea where we are by checking out the travel log.
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6/10 Did the little weather graphics for this site. :)
6/24 Made the "into the ether" picture that i put on 6/23 Log page
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6/15 Michael made a contact on 2m on the hailing frequency when we were at the top of the mountain at Port Jervis NY. Michael making a contact from
a Halifax NS repeater 6/22. 6/22 Michael checked on the Halifax repeaters and announced himself on one. He got into a conversation with a guy in Halifax who told us that he had just been on a trip to the States. He told us that he had been to Dayton and asked us if we had camped at the KOA there. We said yes, that we were the ones with the loud party. He said that he was camped just a few feet away from us! Michael then worked on the big radio, getting it all set up for Field Day and made some "practice" contacts. He worked a station in St. Louis, one in Belgium, one in Russia, and another in central Pennsylvania. These were on 20M. While he did this, i lost a bunch of money doing vegas style scoring solitaire. At 1:45 GMT, we listened as well as we could to the W1AW Field Day message and tried to get it all copied. |
Computer Games I play way too many of 'em! |
6/23 Made some foggy weather
graphics for Nova Scotia :) 
