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Best 2025 to all users of Uiview .

One of the Best if not the Best and simple to use but it cannot be updated!!

i tried other software and i always come back to it!

Simple and it works!

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Envoyé : 13 janvier 2025 13:00
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Objet : Re: [UI-View] Instruction review

On 1/13/2025 11:22 AM, Joe Dietrick via groups.io wrote:

Good morning. Our ARES group was exercising APRS group messaging during our recent Blizzard Warning. Most of them are using phone apps (APRSDroid, APRSfi, APRSPro), and I am working on an instructional document for APRS including:

- Winlink pending mail notification
- SMS texting
- Group messaging

Are there features beyond these 3 to include? Are there corrections or clarifications to the attachment?

I am not being exhaustive (such as instructions for send/receiving WINLINK via APRS). Just trying to get operators to expand their APRS functionality & use, especially considering their limitations for being on phones.

I would be interested in reviews of the attachment for accuracy & clarity.

Thank you.

Joe, KC0NOX

1) Documents being distributed to unknown recipients should NOT be in the
format of a single proprietary program; i.e. Microsoft Word .DOCX format. You
can't simply assume everyone can open a DOCX document, especially on a phone or
tablet.

They should be in a platform-agnostic format like a simple text file, or a PDF
document that can be opened on any platform.


2) Conspicuously absent here is any reference to *RADIO* !!

First and foremost, APRS is about data sent over RADIO. The interfaces to the
Internet are the tail wagging the dog. If you are using only phone apps and no
radio, why get APRS involved at all? If radio is NOT involved, there are
much more efficient ways to communicate text and data than APRS protocols, such
as text messages and email.


3) It's not clear how WinLink is involved with APRS at all. APRS and WinLink
are both applications that that ride on top of packet radio for data transport,
but they are separate from each other. Winlink can use classic packet
protocols, but it can also use Pactor, VARA or other data transmission modes as
the transport medium. I.e. the message is separate from the transmission medium.


4) if the majority of your users are only using phone apps, they are digging
themselves deeper and deeper into the tar baby of cellular/Internet
dependency, which has a high chance of being NOT FUNCTIONAL after a major
disaster.

Some of these phone apps (APRSdroid, PocketPACKET, etc) can use the phone's
sound system as a soft TNC for 300- or 1200-baud packet. [I have actually
linked an iPad to a Yaesu FT-857 for VHF/HF packet and APRS. It does work!]
You need to focus on how to connect the phone "soft modems" to RADIOs, not the
Internet.....


5) This sort of brings to mind an actual experience I had as a radio systems
engineer decades ago with disaster planning in Los Angeles county. We were
gaming out disaster comms scenarios for the City and County of Los Angeles
after the "Big One" (the anticipated 8.0+ earthquake). This was before
cellular networks became ubiquitous - the issue was the relative surviveability
of the public land-line phone network vs the fire and police public safety
radio networks. A representative of the County Board of Supervisors came up
with this brilliant response plan: "If the phones go out, we'll use the FAX"
!!! NOTE: These are the organizations dealing with the current fires there...


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