[Xastir] APRS with non APRS equiped stations ?

[William McKeehan]

I've been thinking about using APRS to assist in an event. The event is a 150
mile bicycle ride. We will have HAMs running in the lead, along the group, and
at the end. The group of HAMs that I will be working with will (in general)
not have APRS running.

At Net Control, I would like to have an easy way to keep track of where
everyone is. I was thinking about the following.

1. Generate a list of places along the planned route where each HAM should
notify Net contol via voice when they pass these places.
2. Have a list of callsigns for the participants and their associated tatical
callsigns (i.e., LEAD, AMBUL, TAIL, SAG1, etc).

Given the above, it should be relatively easy to write a program that will
take the callsign (real or tatical), their associated waypoint and update
Xastir (via the server port?).

Has anyone done anything like this?

-- 
William McKeehan
KI4HDU
Internet: mckeehan at mckeehan.homeip.net
http://mckeehan.homeip.net