[OZAPRS] APRS on 30 metres HF (Robert Bruninga)

[Dion Bramich]

Why WIDE1-1?

On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:55:41 +1100, Radio <radio at dodo.com.au> wrote:

> Well, I based my original setup on the pages that Tony, VK5AH quoted in

> good
> faith. Today, I phoned Ross, VK3MY and he suggested GATE, WIDE1-1 was
the
> correct path. I guess there are now conflicting settings that need to be
> adjusted, to suit a common agreed path setting for  HF stations on 30
> metres,  that are mobiles etc.
>
> Jack VK4JRC QG56FJ
>
> Tony wrote....
> Snip>
>
> Just isnt true.. Recomending anything with WIDE1-1 isnt allways  
> guaranteed
> to get very far either
>
> That might all work nice for you but are we really expecting the  
> Ionosphere
> to work that well that we can make regular use of your HF gates over  
> there
> ?? I think not. By the way we have our own HF gates over here and  
> sometimes
> they pick up posit beacons transmitted from your gateways ..
>
> Maybee for the best solution to the question in VK land have a look at  
> this
> web page which isnt all that dated.
> http://www.aprs.net.au/hf_aprs_information.htm
>
>
> Tony Hunt  VK5AH
>
>>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 18:39:58 -0500
>> From: "Robert Bruninga" <bruninga at usna.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] APRS on 30 metres HF
>> To: "'Radio'" <radio at dodo.com.au>, "'VK / ZL  APRS Users'"
>> <ozaprs at aprs.net.au>
>> Message-ID: <026e01c74b11$473c7460$42577a83 at SGSbb>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>>
>> > I have tried several HF path variations like GATE,
>> > WIDE and did not make it to www.findu.com
>> >
>> > What is the correct path statement that should be used?
>>
>> The path that has always been recommended since we first began
>> HF APRS on that freequency back in 1993, that is, VIA
>> GATE,WIDE1-1.  (it used to be VIA GATE,WIDE, but the WIDE part
>> of that is now obsolete and will not work).  See the original
>> HF.TXT file.  See the web page:
>>
>> http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/gates.html
>>
>> Do not use ECHO.  The page explained above tells why...
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Bob, Wb4APR
>>
>
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