Hello and welcome to my Blog, my name is Chris, a bus driver for First Mendip based in Wells, Somerset. I am Chair and H&S rep for the depot branch of Unite the Union. Married to Fiona, we live in Midsomer Norton near Bath, with Boots the cat. My main hobby is Amateur Radio and I hold the call sign G4KVI. I am the repeater keeper for GB3UB and MB7UB. I have a fascination for the weather and all things to do with nature and science. As a Christian I worship, when shifts allow at St. Nicholas Church in Radstock. These are my observations on my life, both at work and at home.

23 Jan 2011

Update on APRS

Tried the two APRS applications and the conclusion I have come to is that they are both very good but in different ways. APRSDROID  is the one I have decided is the best for me. It is very simple to use and runs in the background without using too much battery power. The U2APRS has many more features. It can show your position on a map, enable you send messages. However it seems to be battery hungry and as it is not a true Android App it is not easy to switch too. However if you can power the phone and use the gps this is the app to use. The only problem still seems to be that the position can be off due to WiFi networks having the wrong address recorded.This seems in part down to Google collecting data when they were recording images for Google earth. This would be fine if they had some means for the data to be corrected. Anyway, apart from that it is proving a very useful application.

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