[OZAPRS] Bulletins on HF and 2m propagation

Peter VK1NFI vk1nfi at netspace.net.au
Fri May 11 16:42:38 EST 2007


My D700 is always receiving VK3 and VK5 bulletins whilst I am mobile, 
both in VK1 and in VK2....  In fact it is these that seem to be the main 
offenders that we are always getting hammered with here, not VK4 or 
VK7..... ( we do get them but only occasionally...)

Tony Hunt wrote:
> Ive noticed we have a few odd bulletins popping out here in VK5 from
other
> states. While this is all very interesting it can start to get annoying
on
> the D700s and D7s as they fill up with messages in the message buffer
with
> stuff thats not even relavant locally.
>
> In the last couple of days we have had Bulletins from VK7 and VK4 in
> particular. We probably cant stop the odd bit of propagation on 2m but
one
> bulletin comes through from HF consistantly.
> Ive noticed that each time I switch on the HF gate here that the
incidence
> of these bulletins goes up. Basically we have bulletins going out on HF
> using the path of GATE,WIDE or something similar and this causes them to
be
> gated to the VHF network here locally. I suspect the same thing is
happening
> in Melbourne.
>
> If we must put out bulletins on HF cant we do it with a path that does
not
> translate to being sprayed out everywhere like this ? It is possible
with
> Uiview to specify the path for individual bulletins.
>
> Note that our Igate in Adelaide does not Gate Bulletins to RF on 2m
unless
> they are of VK5 origin. This has been done for a reason a long while
back.
> We tried it for a while and it proved a real waste of bandwidth. We are
just
> not interested in your local conditions and info in VK4 VK7 or VK3 VK2
> sorry.
>
> Some interesting propagation on 2m of late and some OLD paths still in
use
> in VK7 I see..
>
> 07:58:26R VK7DC>APU25N,VK7RWC*,VK5RNE-2*,WIDE3-1 Port=1 <UI C Len=68>:
> ;VK7RAC   *130859z4057.13S/14543.25Em70CM Voice repeater 438.650Mhz
> 07:58:27R VK7DC>APU25N,VK7RWC*,VK5RSC-1*,WIDE3-1 Port=1 <UI C Len=68>:
> ;VK7RAC   *130859z4057.13S/14543.25Em70CM Voice repeater 438.650Mhz
>
> 07:37:23R VK7AX>APU25N,VK7RAA*,VK7RVP*,VK7RWC*,VK5RSC-1*,WIDE3* Port=1
<UI C
> Len=71>:
>
> Tony Hunt VK5AH
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ozaprs mailing list
> Ozaprs at aprs.net.au
> http://aprs.net.au/mailman/listinfo/ozaprs
>
>   

_______________________________________________
Ozaprs mailing list
Ozaprs at aprs.net.au
http://aprs.net.au/mailman/listinfo/ozaprs
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://second.aprs.net.au/pipermail/ozaprs/attachments/20070511/138194e6/attachment.htm 


More information about the Ozaprs mailing list