[Ribbit-Users] PC Program Possibility

[Matt Miller]

Greetings,

I am the VP of a 100% volunteer Search and Rescue team in northern
Wisconsin. I stumbled upon the Rattlegram app by chance and have to say I
am thoroughly impressed with the app and the ability to send text messages
over radio. While most phones don’t have any signal while out on a search
mission, the GPS feature still works. It is a whole lot easier for teams to
copy & paste a GPS coordinate along with a brief message than it is to key
up the radio and read off everything.
When we do searches, we use a computer program that downloads GPS tracks
from our teams. Whether it be voice over radio giving GPS coordinates or
using the Rattlegram App we have to manually write the coordinates into the
computer program. If there were a bare bones PC Program created that we
could just hook the radio up to the sound card on the PC rather than a
phone or tablet, we could literally just “copy & paste” the data from one
program to the other. Depending on who responds, we do not always have a
tablet available and someone has to connect their personal cellphone.

Is this something that would possibly be in the works for the future? If so
I could definitely get other SAR teams on board to use it (even if there
was a cost involved).
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