[OZAPRS] European v USnewparadigmand pathlimiting +confusion....

Richard Hoskin vk3jfk at amsat.org
Tue Nov 7 18:45:15 EST 2006


Chris,

WIDE1-1 gives you the ability to utilise Fill-In digipeaters or RELAY only
home stations in the old jargon, when a local area is in an RF black spot
for the Wide / Main digi.

Cheers
Richard
VK3JFK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
> Behalf Of Chris Hill
> Sent: Tuesday, 7 November 2006 5:45 PM
> To: 'VK / ZL APRS Users'
> Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] European v USnewparadigmand pathlimiting
> +confusion....
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Is there an advantage to having a path of "WIDE1-1, WIDE2-2", instead of
> "WIDE3-3"?
> 
> I would have thought that the slightly shorter packet (approx 10%
shorter)
> would be preferable, as it has a slightly better chance of being decoded
> error free at the first digipeater (and hence accessing the network).
> 
> Am I missing something, or is "APRS v WIDE1-1, WIDE2-2" a carry over
from
> the old paradigm?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> 
> Chris
> vk6kch
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
> Behalf Of Andrew McDade
> Sent: Tuesday, 7 November 2006 2:36 PM
> To: VK / ZL APRS Users
> Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] European v USnewparadigmand pathlimiting
> +confusion....
> 
> Gday Dion,
> 
> As per you previous email , transient / mobile aprs users would use the
> WIDE1-1,WIDE2-2 generic National config.. Whereas home stations,
> digipeaters, special nets, non -interstate ( inter-zone) mobile users
> could
> perhaps use the ZONEn-n config. So getting on the boat shouldn't cause
too
> much grief for the would-be interstate traveler !!.  In fact most
> trackers,
> D700's D7's etc etc. all have at least two configs that can be setup, So
> users could possibly utilize a local zonen-n config and an interstate
> travel
> 
> config being wide1-1,wide2-2 within their tracker etc.
> 
> Regards .. Andrew .. VK5EX
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dion Bramich" <vk7ybi at yahoo.com.au>
> To: "VK / ZL APRS Users" <ozaprs at aprs.net.au>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 4:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] European v USnewparadigmand pathlimiting
> +confusion....
> 
> 
> > On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:58:34 +1100, Andrew McDade
> <amcdade at iprimus.com.au>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Gday Richard and all,
> >>
> >>> Zoning would make more sense. We use a different implementation of
> Zones
> >>> in
> >>> VK3 already
> >>
> >> Noting your comment above. I think that we should be trying to
> >> standardize
> >> on one form or another of a zoning system that will best suit the
whole
> >> of
> >> Australia. You could say that each region / zone is independent, and
so
> >> it
> >> doesn't really matter which way this is setup. However it would be
nice
> >> from
> >> a documentation and new user setup point of view, if a standard set
of
> >> guidelines is developed with regards to this.
> >
> > Nicer, eg, if someone down here could get on the boat, drive and be
seen
> > without the need for him to take all his documentation to learn how to
> > reprogram, and his laptop to do the programming?
> >
> >>
> >> BTW... perhaps you could tell us more about the Vic zoning
> >> implementation.
> >> Perhaps , it'll suit the rest of us as well !!.
> >
> > Dion.
> >
> >>
> >> Regards .. Andrew
> >>
> >>
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