[OZAPRS] HF Beacon Rate

[Ray Wells]

This is the SSID information from the three URL's Tony supplied.

 -1, 2, 3, 4 are for digipeaters and other home stations

 -6  is for Operations via Satellite
 -7  is for TH-D7 walkie talkies
 -8  is for boats, sailboats and ships (maybe 802.11 in the future)
 -9  is for Mobiles
 -10 is for operation via The internet only
 -11 is for APRStouch-tone users  (and the occasional Balloons)
 -14 is for Truckers
 -15 is for HF


-6 Satellite or special operations (usually mobiles/portables)
-7 Kenwood D7 HH
-8 Secondardy mobile/portable (Maritime applications USA, maybe 802.11 
in the future)
-9 Primary Mobiles
-11 APRS Touch Tone Via EchoLink systems (and the occasional Balloons)
-12 Portable Units such as Laptops etc.
-14 Legacy standard for Truckers (USA)
-15 HF Mobiles



    -0 Home Station, Home Station running IGate.
    -1 Digipeater, Home Station running a Relay Digi, Wx Digipeater
    -2 Digipeater [#2 or] on 70CM
    -3 Digipeater [#3]
    -4 HF to VHF Gateway
    -5 IGate (Not home station) -6 is for Operations via Satellite
    -7 Kenwood D7 HH
    -8 is for boats, sailboats and ships (maybe 802.11 in the future)
    -9 is for Mobiles
    -10 is for operation via The internet only
    -11 is for APRStouch-tone users  (and the occasional Balloons)
    -12 Portable Units such as Laptops, Camp Sites etc.
    -14 is for Truckers
    -15 is for HF

List 1 ignores -0
List 2 makes no mention of SSID 0 to 5
List 1 & 3 say -15 for HF (mobile, home station, either, both??)
List 2 says -15 for HF mobiles and then to confuse the issue, lists 1 & 
3 say -9 is for mobiles (HF, VHF, or HF and VHF??)
List 2 says -9 is for primary mobiles, whatever they are. Are there 
secondary or tertiary mobiles?
List 1 says -4 is for digipeaters and other home stations while list 3 
says -4 is for HF to VHF gateway

It's easy to see how a newcomer, after refering to a single list, could 
make a mistake. It's only after one gains some experience that some 
aspects of the lists start to become clear, and other aspects remain 
unclear.

I was running -4 as a VHF Igate and was in the process of getting the HF 
radio ready for the HF gate. This quite cleary fits in with the useage 
of -4 for "other home stations" but is in conflict with list 3.

I was taken to task because I didn't have the HF radio working at that 
time and therefore I wasn't a HF gate and therefore should not have been 
using -4

VK3 uses -1 for digis while VK4 is using -3. Yes. it does fit in with 
both lists 1 & 3 but it doesn't represent a national standard.

I think I must reiterate my earlier comment that when it comes to SSID's 
"you can get as many answers as there are people you ask".

Ray vk2tv

Tony Hunt wrote:

>Ray .. Here are some more URLs .. Not sure whats so confusing about the
SSID
>usage..
>Its probably the one thing that is up to date on web pages.. Ignore alot
of
>the other info but the SSID usage is correct ..
>http://www.aprs.net.au/aprs_ssid_guide.htm
>http://vk5.aprs.net.au/stationSetup.html
>http://eng.usna.navy.mil/~bruninga/aprs/SSIDs.txt
>
>Perhaps the confusion is because most of the pages say -15 is for HF and
-9
>is for Mobiles .. If -4 is for HF gates and we dont run HF from home as a
>standard thing unless its a HF gate then whats "-15 is for HF" supposed
to
>mean ?? Logically it must be HF mobiles .. Who else is on the HF channel
??
>I thought it was for mobiles and HF gates ..
>
>If you actually have a listen on the HF net then you will find that the
>majority of  HF mobiles are using -15.. This isnt some thing we dreamed
up
>here in VK.. It is in fact a international agreement..
>
>Tony Hunt VK5AH
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
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>>From: "Ray Wells" <vk2tv at exemail.com.au>
>>To: "Tony Hunt" <wavetel at internode.on.net>; "VK / ZL APRS Users"
>><ozaprs at aprs.net.au>
>>Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 6:50 PM
>>Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] HF Beacon Rate
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>>>Not sure about the SSID issue, however, Tony. It seems that you can get
>>>as many answers as there are people you ask, and perusing on-line
>>>recommendations reveals much disagreement, even within Australia, let
>>>alone elsewhere.
>>>
>>>Ray ... vk2tv
>>>
>>>      
>>>
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