[OZAPRS] APRS NODES?

[G T & C A Beagley]

Hi Ron and others.

We have these things called mountains here in NZ which makes it very 
difficult to get VHF signals from one area to another without resorting 
to Mountain-top repeaters. Data repeaters are used for this purpose over 
short distances. Putting a simplex digi such as a UIDGI on a hilltop 
doesn't work very well as we get too much digipeating.
For instance.  ZL1AMW-14's IGATE in Hamilton is only about 80km from 
here as the crow flies but there's this b... great lot of mountains in 
the way. Until I got my IGATE going this was our local operators only 
access to an IGATE and therefore the rest of the country.
I gather in the USA the method of APRS ops is to contain their signals 
within their own area. We use the opposite idea. Because NZ is a small 
country with few APRS operators we like to have our sigs get around the 
whole country.

Cheers

Graham

Ron Perry wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 20:00, G T & C A Beagley wrote:
> 
>>I have been running the ROT node (ZL1ROT-2) here in Rotorua for the last

>>year. It has 2 ports. Port 1 is the local simplex port on 144.575mhz. 
>>Port 2 is the linking port to the Kaima Data Repeater up in the local 
>>mountain range to the North West (Tx 144.8, Rx 145.4). It digipeats 1 - 
>>1,2 and 2 - 1. This method connects us with the rest of the world. I 
>>used the node symbol as I believe this setup to be a Node.
> 
> 
> So I assume from this a "node" is a more than a single frequency
> digipeater?  Is the digipeater UI only?
> 
> 
>>Last week I disconnected Port 2 and it became a Digipeater (symbol 
>>changed to Digi) on 144.575. 
> 
> 
> Ok.
> 
> 
>>My IGATE has replaced the Data repeater 
>>link to the outside world. 
>>Likewise each point on our National UHF FM system is considered to be a 
>>Node. Each area node is linked to the next by a UHF or SHF link.
> 
> 
> Generally a "node" is a connection point.
> 
> 
>>Hope this helps.
>>
> 
> 
> It does. Thanks.
> 
> We don't see them in VK as we (almost) all operate on one frequency. 
> I can't understand why ZL is not on one single frequency? It seems very
> fragmented to me.
> 
> Regards,
> Ron
> vk3ecv
> 
> 
> 
>>Graham
>>
>>ZL1GTB
>>
>>Ron Perry wrote:
>>
>>>Hmm,
>>>I notice a number of NODES in ZL. Can someone explain, what an APRS
NODE
>>>is?
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Ron
>>>
>>>
>>>
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