[OZAPRS] VK3 APRS News.......

Dion Bramich vk7ybi at yahoo.com.au
Tue Dec 5 23:37:03 EST 2006


I've got all of that, I'll put my hand up..

On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:15:49 +1100, Richard Hoskin <vk3jfk at amsat.org>
wrote:

>
> Gday,
>
>
> ISS & ISS Ground station news.
>
>
>> From reports received it looks like the ISS APRS digipeater has been
>> switch
> back on.
>
> Unfortunately the main VK3 ground station for ISS has been temporarily
> decommissioned due to a pending house move.
>
>
> There are vacancies for the position of a permanent Rx SatGates for
> Australia. If you would like to operate a 24/7 Sgate for APRS please let
> me
> know. All that is required is a 2mtr receiver on 145.800Mhz, a ¼ wave
> ground
> plane, good coax, a reliable PC running UI-View and a broadband
> connection.
>
>
> VK3REB-1 Experiment
>
> The digipeater VK3REB-1 is not available for normal use as it is being
> used
> for an experiment to measure the relative non-local packet traffic that
> is
> seen by Gippsland. The digipeater has been configured to repeat any
> non-VK3
> generated packets including TAS3-3. The number of transmissions made by
> the
> digi are measured by SiteAlert and displayed on a graph at
> http://vk3.aprs.net.au/digi_site_graphs.htm#REB%20ptt  VK3REB-1 produces
> 4
> administration packets of it’s own every ½ hour, all other digipeated
> packet
> counts are from interstate. You can clearly see from the graph when
> conditions are better than normal for ‘DX’. This is a good example of how
> many ‘DX’ packets local APRS packets have to compete with.
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Richard
>
> VK3JFK
>
>
>
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