Comments on: APRSBB: APRS Client for Blackberry

By: F0DWW

F0DWW — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:09:41 +0000

Bonjour
j’ai télécharger l’application APRSBB
Mais il demande un mots de passe ou le trouver
ou alors y a t il un site pour s enregistrer
merci a tous

By: Anang - YB3SZM

Anang - YB3SZM — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 03:17:42 +0000

I will try with my BB
I was Registered for APRS, same number in APRSBB?

By: Dave KB8TZX

Dave KB8TZX — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 06:07:16 +0000

Will you be adding frequency reporting as an optional data field we can transmit. For instance, if I have my HT along and nothing else but Blackberry… I could input what frequency I’ll be using into APRSBB and have it show up for others who would like to contact me?

Obviously, I would need to keep updating that information as there is no connection to the radio to read it… but I think it would be a great help to have that as a function that I could enable for a particular run of the program (when I go for a drive with HT on a mobile whip, for example)

Tnx. 73!

By: Damien F5RRS

Damien F5RRS — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 17:52:27 +0000

APRSBB does require your APRS password.
How and where can I register any APRS password ?
I try to put a password on the running programm but I never saw me on any map! So I think there is somewhere a database to register this password…
Any help ?
73 – Damien F5RRS

By: KJ4ERJ

KJ4ERJ — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:15:26 +0000

As an author of a similar APRS tracking application for Windows Mobile phones, I must agree with Chris with one addition. In the case of these applications, the user is the one that is loading the application and activating it. The privacy and security issues have been debated on the various APRS-related amateur radio fora (forums?) and the conclusion is always the same, if you want privacy, turn off the tracker.

The programs that we’re discussing here, APRSBB and APRSISCE/32, are not stealth programs that can secreted onto a phone by malicious individuals to track the phone’s owner. They are very much information visibility tools designed to be used exclusively by amateur radio operators to contribute to and maintain a view of the current situation in their immediate vicinity.

People have asked me if I’m worried about someone knowing where I am. My response is that they can know just as much about me by sitting across the street and watching my comings and goings. There is no privacy in our current world and anyone that thinks they have privacy are simply deluding themselves.

Lynn (D) – KJ4ERJ – Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32

By: Chris KJ4HPQ

Chris KJ4HPQ — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:08:44 +0000

I’m a developer, the users are users.

I’ve created a way to use an already existing technology, what the user does with it is THEIR responsibility.

This response may sound callous, but it’s just the way it has to be. I, as the developer, can’t and do not want to be responsible for your privacy.

The technology is there for use at your (the user’s) discretion.

By: Worried (N/A at present)

Worried (N/A at present) — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:01:48 +0000

Chris -
Given the recent attention from news outlets, such as The Wallstreet Journal, to the growing problem that applications like this have created- Namely, an easy way for stalkers to track their victims- how will your program eliminate the aims of, excuse the dramaticism, the creeps of the world? I don’t mean to be an alarmist but the fact of the matter is that domestic abuse victims are increasingly less safe from their abusers due to the tracking devices in smart phones (Which, coincidentally, the U.S. government requires 95% of a company’s phones to include gps tracking devices.)Add to that the fact that one in five American women (and one in 12 American men) will be in an abusive relationship at least once in their life and I see a reason to be worried. Most victims have had the tracking features on their phones activated without their knowledge, but the 23% that were aware of the tracking features and were aware they were active didn’t connect the dots.

Can you address my concern?

-Just Worried

By: Chris KJ4HPQ

Chris KJ4HPQ — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:18:42 +0000

Lynn,
I have two emails into Bob Bruninga to register a the APBB* ToCall block but I’ve not gotten any response. So in the true spirit of begging for forgiveness when failing to get permission, I’m using “APBB01″ as the initial ToCall.

By: KJ4ERJ

KJ4ERJ — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:58:12 +0000

I’ve been holding my tongue about this for almost a year it seems, so I’m really glad to see this go public. I’m really anxious to see the APRSBB users hitting the map. What’s the application identifier (ToCall) going to be, Chris, so we can all add a u/AP???? to our APRS-IS filters?

Lynn (D) – KJ4ERJ – Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32