Common SPOT Messenger shared pages web site

[Tuno]

I've started a database at my webpage (http://www.justsoar.com/
spotpages.php) to share SPOT web pages. If you're interested in
sharing yours, please e-mail me the following pieces of data:

Name
Contest ID (or callsign)
Glider
Country (international two-letter code please)
Region (e.g. "Southwest" or "Region 9" or "Arizona")
SPOT glId (the last part of your shared page URL)

If there's sufficient address, I'll add the ability to sort and filter
the page by country, region, glider, etc.

~ted/2NO

[Tuno]

ps the e-mail address to use is at the aforementioned web site.

[Frank Whiteley]

On Aug 22, 3:45*pm, Tuno > wrote:
> I've started a database at my webpage (http://www.justsoar.com/
> spotpages.php) to share SPOT web pages. If you're interested in
> sharing yours, please e-mail me the following pieces of data:
>
> Name
> Contest ID (or callsign)
> Glider
> Country (international two-letter code please)
> Region (e.g. "Southwest" or "Region 9" or "Arizona")
> SPOT glId (the last part of your shared page URL)
>
> If there's sufficient address, I'll add the ability to sort and filter
> the page by country, region, glider, etc.
>
> ~ted/2NO

Might be useful to include fields for transponder, PLB 121.5/406, and
ELT 121.5/406. Thus if emergency services were required, advice on
potential search strategies would be immediately available.

Frank Whiteley

[Darryl Ramm]

On Aug 22, 6:10*pm, Frank Whiteley > wrote:
> On Aug 22, 3:45*pm, Tuno > wrote:
>
> > I've started a database at my webpage (http://www.justsoar.com/
> > spotpages.php) to share SPOT web pages. If you're interested in
> > sharing yours, please e-mail me the following pieces of data:
>
> > Name
> > Contest ID (or callsign)
> > Glider
> > Country (international two-letter code please)
> > Region (e.g. "Southwest" or "Region 9" or "Arizona")
> > SPOT glId (the last part of your shared page URL)
>
> > If there's sufficient address, I'll add the ability to sort and filter
> > the page by country, region, glider, etc.
>
> > ~ted/2NO
>
> Might be useful to include fields for transponder, PLB 121.5/406, and
> ELT 121.5/406. *Thus if emergency services were required, advice on
> potential search strategies would be immediately available.
>
> Frank Whiteley

Ted, nice. But could you have Contest ID *and* aircraft registration.
SAR folks are goign to want to know the later if only for bureaucratic
reasons and often other glider pilots may not know the N-number.

Some comment field would be useful. Like for cases of a shared SPOT
messenger and ...

Since there can be multiple shared pages and people need to kill them
to change things and may forget to resend that update. So how about
the actual SPOT ID as well to make it easier if SAR needs to contact
SPOT (Presumably SPOT can always reverse decode that anyhow..). May be
all too much to ask people of course.

It would be useful to know if the SPOT is attached to the pilot's
parachute harness or mounted on the ship.

I agree with Frank. The details of an ELT or PLB, and in either case
the type/model (e.g. is it a PLB with GPS or not?) and the beacon ID
if it is a 406 MHz device are important. For a PLB also whether it is
attached to the parachute harness or not (Id presume yes, but lets not
presume). All these can help give SAR folks more a clue what might be
going on.

For the SPOT it can get complicated since not everybody has to pay for
the optional tracking or turn that on on each flight. I am wondering
if some way to provide other emergency contact info would be a good
idea, may need access protection on that stuff.

Isn't feature creep wonderful :-)

Darryl

[Tuno]

Darryl: Yes I can add the registration, however there will be some
users who take their SPOT from glider to glider (clubs, rentals etc).

Frank and Darryl: I'll add one field in which folks can put whatever
"other" locator hardware they have, and a comment field to back up
everything.

So, that's 3 more fields: registration, ELT/PLB/other, and Comment.
Anything else?

And, if there's enough interest (what I meant to say in my OP instead
of "address" -- dang keyboard), I'll beef up the web page so folks can
add and update their data without having me in the loop.

2NO