[OZAPRS] VK2 APRS 'New n-N Paradigm'

[Ray Wells]

I lived adjacent to Charmhaven for 21 years and VK2RAG coverage of that 
area is excellent, in general. VK2RAG uses VK2INT-1 as the Igate. The 
DB0ANF server shows both stations are active.

Ray vk2tv

Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:

>-----Original Message-----
>From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
>Behalf Of Ray Wells
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>>Don't expect too much in the way of APRS north of the Central Coast.
>>I may stand corrected but I think VK2RAG at Somersby is the
>>northern-most APRS digi at this time.
>>    
>>
>
>Speaking of the Central coast, I just spent the last week in Charmhaven
>(~15km from wyong?).  Seems half my probs with APRS in the ute have been
>something going on with that damned fold-back-able antenna, as the D7
>wasn't hearing a single APRS packet, until I shoved it on UHF, and put
>the FT8100 into cross-band repeat mode..  All of a sudden I had lots of
>APRS :)  BUT, not a single packet of mine ended up on the 'net  - is
>there no igate up there?  I was hearing my packets back fine (which was
>a bit of a tricky thing, with the 8100 realtime repeating VHF to UHF, a
>lot of packets had their starts chopped off before the 8100 keyed the tx
>up fully..), but they never appeared on findu, even after leaving it
>running all night last night..
>
>
>Even with the 8100 running its full 50W into the 4.5dB antenna, there
>was basically no APRS activity whatsoever from about 60km south of
>Sydney, until I came through Wodonga, then I had pretty much full cover
>till the usual blackspot through Seymour, which went until I hit the
>Melbourne network..  (Although findu isn't showing that yet, I'm
>guessing it's got a delay?)
>
>Cheers,
>
>Damien
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