Hi Patrick, On 12-05-03 at 05:28pm, Patrick Ouellette wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 05:13:09PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > > > > Drat. I forgot about APRS. APRS has become fairly popular among > > hams, so much so that it now comes built-in to several radios, and > > even HTs (Handy-Talkies). > > > > APRS is a system for location reporting. It's also very commonly > > used to track experimental weather balloons at high altitudes, > > because apparently GPS stops working at around 30,000 feet. [The > > original high-altitude MIT balloon launch that many others have > > duplicated uses APRS, and I know of other groups using it for this > > purpose also.] APRS is also commonly used by hams to track > > themselves and/or their cars and loved ones as they drive around. > > > > The rigs used in cars likely aren't running a Linux OS, but the base > > station nodes that receive and report the APRS traffic probably are, > > and as Debian has been friendly to hams it's one of the more likely > > to be used there. > > > > Continue to say DRAT! The handwriting is on the wall. Very few have > come out even marginally supporting the ham radio claim other than > myself. > > Frankly, given the lack of response from the Debian ham community I'm > inclined to no longer maintain the ax25 packages and let them drop > from Debian. > > Three other people are listed as uploaders on ax25-apps: Jaime Robles, > Hamish Moffatt, and Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan. I haven't heard from > any of them. Haven't heard from our QSSTV supporter either (Steve > Kostecke).
I dearly appreciate your input in this discussion, and sincerely hope that you will not give up on maintaining that ham radio package! I do not use ham radio myself, but I recognize its relevancy for others, and I do not want it out of Debian. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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