[jonah]

> APRS would require we all have technician licenses

If you were using the "normal" APRS frequency, but if you set up your own iGate, you could run it in the public safety band, couldn't you? (If you had a frequency licensed and coordinated of course.)

Alternately, you could get a business band license and run it there. In that case, each individual doesn't need a license, just an org.

[dan000892]

Sure, I could coordinate or license a frequency and build or acquire radios to use APRS but why? It requires greater effort, risk, and expense for the same result as the off-the-shelf solution.