With flaky cell service on my phone and no service at all on my tablet today, I thought I would turn to my trusty HT and spot via APRS. I didn’t even put on the big antenna, sent a spot and got back a received notice. But, the note said that the spot was rejected!?! I always recycle an old spot so I know the syntax was correct and even tried using another previously successful spot for a template with the same result. Is APRS spotting being affected by the issues with the old database connection like SOTAwatch2 and other spotting tools? @MM0FMF Another activator said that his APRS spots never got out over the weekend so I am not sure if this is the same issue or not.
You should have received an email from the reflector when you were mentioned by me a few posts back. Possibly the mail was spam filtered.
Anyway Stewart, just shout if you want to have an offline chat about how to update your code. There’s a few ways to make the transistioning something that can be done in stages depending on how much time you have available to spend on this.
I noticed yesterday a few activators were on summits and there were no spots.
I made one and saw other chasers spot too for the activators. I am guessing this
was part of that problem. Also, saw on the news a hiker and his wife were hit by
lightning yesterday in Colorado (W0C) and wonder if any of our activators were
hurt in these storms. I have not seen any posts on it as of yet.
I was activating South Boulder Peak (W0C/FR-075) on Sunday when the 1 hiker was killed by lightening (his wife was injured and is recovering) on Bear Peak Trail.
Bear Peak Trail connects to Shadow Canyon Trail that leads to South Boulder Peak.
A storm came upon us in very short order, with rain, light hail, and lots of lightening. I aborted my activation, and ended with only 2 contacts, but I’d much rather be alive than gain the SOTA points. I climbed down into an area with some large rocks for cover to wait for the worst of the lightening to pass.
As far as I know, the hiker that was killed was not a ham operator. The death is tragic, and it reminded me of the sometimes tenuous hold that we have on life.
