[OZAPRS] RE: Good DX conditions yesterday on APRS

[Richard Hoskin]

Hi Tony,

I've noticed that over the past week the conditions have been very good.
I've talked to a few Midura stations via the local 70cm repeater.

As you pointed out, in these situations APRS would be in a big mess if VK3
was on 145.175Mhz. The current arrangement protects us from a lot of
problems. I have talked to a number of commercial users of VHF and they
all
have issues with 'interference' from other stations when conditions are
good. This can cause major headaches for the Emergency Services.

Cheers
Richard
VK3JFK


-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Hunt [mailto:wavetel at iname.com] 
Sent: Thursday, 19 February 2004 8:56 AM
To: OZ-APRS Mial-list
Cc: Richard Hoskin VK3JFK; David Tilson VK3UR; Carl Beard VK5KCB; Adrian
Snell VK5ZSN; Andy snappy Mcdade; SA APRS LIST; Ron Perry VK3ECV
Subject: Good DX conditions yesterday on APRS

Well yesterday morning I awoke to find these interesting things happening
on
145.175 .. Have a look at this stuff.. I usually dont run UI-Path for for
some odd reason I had run it up and noticed a few odd callsigns appearing
on
the heard list.. UI-Path never shows Igate traffic so this made me really
look twice..

It was comming in thick and fast for over an hour..

07:23:11R VK7ZSJ>APU25H,VK7ZSJ-1*,VK3WRM-1*,VK5RSC-1*,TRACE3 Port=1 <UI C
Len=57>:
=Ic:8XsFBr&  B* VK7ZSJ * Penguin NorthWest Tas * {UIV32}

Followed by our Igate..
07:23:18R VK7ZSJ>APU25H,TCPIP,VK5UJ-1* Port=1 <UI C Len=91>:
=Ic:8XsFBr&  B* VK7ZSJ * Penguin NorthWest Tas * {UIV32}

Also copied VK7RMD VK7RNW objects and VK7ZSJ-1 digi on the same path
shortly
after..

Mannaged to pass some messages and get VK7ZSJ out of bed.. I even got
ACKs..

07:47:37R VK7ZSJ>APU25H,VK7ZSJ-1*,VK5RMB-1*,VK5RSC-1*,TRACE3 Port=1 <UI C
Len=61>:
:VK5AH    :Hi, just saw msg, not a bad trip for this mode{28

This last message made it into VK5RMB-1 without going via VK3 ..

Also saw VK3MY-2 at about 0925 local as I was mobile and got a Bulletin
from
VK3MY-2 .. We dont see bulletins from VK3 via the Igate..
So all in all very interesting condx.. It would be chaos if most of VK3
was
on 145.175 I would say..


Tony Hunt VK5AH



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