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

[Terry Neumann]

Robert Bruninga wrote:

>>WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1 for mobiles and WIDE2-2 for home stations ?
>>OR
>>WIDE1-1,WIDE2-2 for mobiles and WIDE3-3 for home stations. ?
>>    
>>
>
>I appologize for kibitzing from so far away with no real clue as
>to your traffic loading, but in the absence of being there, I
>was going to say, based on comments I had seen on here that APRS
>was small enough that it didn't need these measures yet...
>
>Boy was I wrong.  I just zoomed on the first call I saw and
>found that even Adelade is probably just about optimally loaded
>and cannot afford much coming in from say Melbourne without
>having some impact on throughput.  I see 50 stations within 50
>miles of Adelade and that is about as high as you want to go
>without losing reliability for small trackers.
>  
>
This figure is something of a surprise to me as a relative "local" to 
Adelaide Bob.

In my listening/looking on 2 metres I doubt that I have ever seen many 
more than even 15 stations with 50 miles of Adelaide.

Puzzled 73,
Terry
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