{"id":3049,"date":"2004-08-12T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-12T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/blast-from-the-past\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T13:13:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T02:13:22","slug":"blast-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/3049","title":{"rendered":"Blast from the past."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a blast from the blast when I was told about a paper from 1999 that seemed to make some superfical statements about GPS tracking using Packet Radio. The paper is available on <a href=\"http:\/\/gauss.gge.unb.ca\/papers.pdf\/geoffroy.report.pdf\">a Canadian Uni Site<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Reading through it there are statements such as &#8220;In March 1999, Greg Jones stated that&#8230;&#8221;. Well, I know Greg Jones, and have known him since 1997. Wow. He is the former president of TAPR of which I am a board member. Cute. The I read more. And I see a map from the WinAPRS software. Ok. Looks a bit dated, but those were the maps available at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Then I read a bit further, and they mention &#8220;Mr Darryl Smith, VK2TDS&#8221;, and I am really impressed. My client was raving about this paper, and the paper mentioned me. Look further. It turns out that they included a screen shot of software I wrote. I am amazed. Even better, it turns out all the maps in the paper were produced using my software &#8211; software I was giving away. <\/p>\n<p>I used LookOut to search through my email and found a few emails back in 1999 from the author asking about my software and noting some bugs. But he never did tell me that he had published my name.  Gosh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a blast from the blast when I was told about a paper from 1999 that seemed to make some superfical statements about GPS tracking using Packet Radio. The paper is available on a Canadian Uni Site. Reading through &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/3049\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blast from the past.<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5cfmK-Nb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}