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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
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* Brian Carling in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA *
* E-mail: bry@mnsinc.com *
* http://www.mnsinc.com/bry/ *
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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
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"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
End of glowbugs V1 #69
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