Watch out though because anyone who intends to use this has to have a valid Amateur Radio callsign.

See Also:

http://www.byonics.com/pockettracker/

hey, just wondering what everyone else’s call was. I’m kc2kvy.

okay, I know this is off-topic, but I’ve got a huge question and I figured hackaday would be as good a start as any.

At school I help the new computer teacher repair the laptops for one of my classes, many of them are having a problem with not being able to find the network’s domain, which would probably be an easy problem to fix if it weren’t for one small problem. The old admin used caspol.exe to cripple access to the control panel, caspol, registry, etc… So we have no access to hardware profiles, network settings, etc.

Is there any way to get around the caspol blocks without administrative rights, or to just disable it without them?

Thanks in advance :-)

-Ryan

ryan, assuming you’re using windows, did you try ‘Policy Editor’? search the internet for poledit.exe.

That’s how I got around all that crap in college. Network admins hated it :) On the other hand, they WERElocking us out of our own PCs.

thanks #9, that sounds like exactly what i need :-)

this is cool and all, but there hasn’t been any good links in a while…

sorry going back to poledit.exe dose any one know were to get it the mirosoft website doesn’t have it.

You don’t need any freaking aprs radios… aprs isn’t all that special, it’s just packet radio and aprs is just how the gps nmea data packets are formated. If you knew the format, you could hook a packet modem up to a dumb terminal and type in dummy packets to make stuff show up on people’s aprs terminals. aprs was originally just a program that ran in dos with a regular packet radio (pk12 anyone?).

Geez.
There’s probably a winaprs program out now that can decode packet radio in software from soundcard input, albeit probably only 300 and 1200 baud versions, and display the received coords on a map.

I updated the website with some more introductory stuff.

As for needed a ham callsign, that’s true if you’re using ham frequencies. As I understand it, the FCC is now allowing position data on FRS (a la Garmin Rino), so you could probably get away with it there, too. But it wouldn’t be as much fun.

Seriously, go get your ham license. It’s easy and cheap. No morse code required. And you can legally run 802.11b at obscene power levels!

802.11b at 1500 watts! just no WEP.

There’s nothing that says you HAVE to transmit on 144.39 so I’m assuming picking a FRS/GMRS channel should work fine. As long as your FRS radio has a external mic/headset input your good to go.

Also does anyone have a link to the software to decode using a soundcard ?

- Quantis

which makes me wonder: *has* anyone gotten their microwave oven to modulate an 802.11 signal? they’re in the same band, and you could maybe tune the magnetron with some external magnets to get it on-channel for 802.11 …

agree on the PIC being like being stuffed in a shoebox with a rusty paperclip.

I hate to say this but in the portion of the band that is shared with non hams for 802.11 the ERP is 100watts. No WEP either.

jeremy