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Subject: glowbugs V1 #69
glowbugs            Saturday, July 5 1997            Volume 01 : Number 069

Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 09:14:54 -0400 From: "Brian Carling" <bry@mnsinc.com> Subject: TEST MESSAGE - ignore Please ignore - thanks Bry, AF4K ************************************************* * Brian Carling in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA * * E-mail: bry@mnsinc.com * * http://www.mnsinc.com/bry/ * ************************************************* Thought for the day: Occifer, I am not as thunk as you drink I am!
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 13:19:12 -0400 (EDT) From: leeboo@ct.net (Leon Wiltsey) Subject: did I get back? HI Gang mail server missed some mail, not sure if any for me. If u sent me mail and I did not get back pse resend. tnx 73 73 73 t THANK THE LORD FOR ALL YOU HAVE 68 yr old semidisabled senior (stroke got my balance & hand to eye coordination) ham agn as KF4RCL TECK+ (MUCH HAPPINESS) BUILD MOST OF MY STATION EQUIP SUB.BA & GB-- NO SOLID STATE Leon B Wiltsey (Lee) 4600 Lake Haven BLVD. Sebring, Fl. 33872 SEBRING FL. WHERE THERE IS NO QRM FROM ANYTHING LOCAL
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 15:11:51 -0700 (PDT) From: tomrice@netcom.com (Tom R. Rice) Subject: Holiday weekend activity Not much activity on the list(s), but I'm hoping to hear lotsa beeps on or about 7050 over the weekend. Out here in CA-land, it's too hot to do anything until dusk, so 0400Z + makes sense here! Of course, I tried it at dawn a few days ago, but suddenly realized that CQ BA means something different out there ;-) Happy Fourth to all......... 73 de WB6BYH - -- "Start off every day with a smile and get it over with." --W.C.Fields Tom R. Rice tomrice@netcom.com CIS: 71160,1122
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 1997 12:32:03 -0500 From: bill@skeeter.frco.com (William Hawkins) Subject: Fishing boat problem Seasons greetings (summer, that is). Hasn't been anything on here worth saving since June 23, so I thought maybe you wouldn't mind something slightly off-topic but still needing home-brew skills. My son runs a 43 ton head boat (fishing party) out of Ocean City, MD. People pay him to take them where the fish are. This is usually around sunken wrecks on the otherwise featureless plain of the bottom. He uses GPS (and Loran) to locate the wrecks, once he's found them. The problem is that some people bring hand-held GPS units abouard and get the coordinates of the fishing spots. These can be sold to other less successful fishing boat captains, which can make a spot too crowded to fish. I heard about this over a year ago, and then nothing, so I thought the problem had gone away. Went out on the boat with him last week, and he is still looking for an effective and legal way to prevent hand-held GPS receivers from obtaining the coordinates of a site. It seems to me that a pulse strong enough to make the hand-held lose lock could be delivered at ten minute intervals, as the portables require about 15 minutes to sync up and give a position. The boat's receiver can lock in a minute. There usually isn't anyone around, and you are 20 miles out from land. The boat has plenty of electrical power. So the question is, is it possible to disable portable GPS on a boat without bothering anyone else? Yes, you can require the passengers to leave the GPS behind, but the kind of person who would do this can easily hide the unit. Regards, Bill Hawkins bill@skeeter.frco.com
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