The following post appeared on the APRS Yahoo Users' group ( followed by my defense of you guys), so if any of you know this evil-doer, please have a friendly chat with him!
If anyone knows VLADYSLAV V KARPAYEV from BAYONNE, NJ he could use some guidance. He is proudly showing off his RV-9A kit plane to the mid atlantic area. He even put a SSID on his airplane tail number N666BK-1. There is an individual that will be trying to post a note to the vans airplane forum to let them know that wide1-1 is bad for the aircraft. It seems like the vans group has decided that Automatic POSITION reporting system is great so those that are at home can track them "for safety". I am not anti-aircraft or anti-tracker but if the vans groups keeps up with the attitude of "get your tech license and get a tracker in your kit plane" and beacon away the airwaves APRS is going to be useless! They are just careless and apparently don't know how much damage they are doing.
WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1 and every 10 seconds is just WRONG from an aircraft!
end of the rant...
Carl,KB1EJH
73,
Allen
VHS
If anyone knows VLADYSLAV V KARPAYEV from BAYONNE, NJ he could use some guidance. He is proudly showing off his RV-9A kit plane to the mid atlantic area. He even put a SSID on his airplane tail number N666BK-1. There is an individual that will be trying to post a note to the vans airplane forum to let them know that wide1-1 is bad for the aircraft. It seems like the vans group has decided that Automatic POSITION reporting system is great so those that are at home can track them "for safety". I am not anti-aircraft or anti-tracker but if the vans groups keeps up with the attitude of "get your tech license and get a tracker in your kit plane" and beacon away the airwaves APRS is going to be useless! They are just careless and apparently don't know how much damage they are doing.
WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1 and every 10 seconds is just WRONG from an aircraft!
end of the rant...
Carl,KB1EJH
73,
Allen
VHS