[OZAPRS] SEQLD Recommendations

[Ray Wells]

Andrew Rich wrote:

>1. All digis set to 60 mins ID
>2. All digis set to no path for ID
>3. VK4IE-3 weather station set TXD to 30
>4. VK4OG stop igating VK4 traffic back into SEQLD
>5. Stations stop using RELAY,WIDE,WIDE
>
>Take a close look at VK4GME-3, it was the first digi and it does the
above.
>
>It is only until others started having a "guess" at what to do things
fell
>in a heap.
>
>
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>Andrew Rich VK4TEC
>vk4tec at people.net.au
>http://www.tech-software.net
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Hi Andrew and all,

Without appearing to make excuses for anybody's incorrectly set up 
station, some of the errors can be directly attributable to the 
erroneous information appearing in the Australian APRS web pages 
(http://www.aprs.net.au/), and some cannot!

Follow the links to the various states (I couldn't get vk4 links to work 
but I'll try again later) and you'll find copious quantities of 
information that still says use RELAY and WIDE. VK2 does, VK3 does, and 
VK5 says mobiles should use RELAY.

Ok, I know that some states are changing to, or have changed to WIDEN-N 
but the documentation doesn't reflect this, and the first place a 
newcomer goes, hopefully, is the documentation. One would reasonably 
expect a site that says "This site contains Australian National 
Information on APRS" to have reasonably up-to-date information. Sure it 
takes someone's time to update the pages, and I'm not being critical of 
page maintainers here. My point is that someone who seeks help gets the 
wrong answers.

Andrew, you and I had a minor disagreement one night over SSID's. Again, 
the documentation gives different answers as to their use.

We really do need to tidy up the help documentation and remove links to 
outdated information if we are to expect newcomers to "get it right".

Given that the published information is in error and/or not in keeping 
with currently implemented practice, it's not unreasonable for an 
operator to set up a station with complete confidence that he/she has 
done the right thing. After all, the help pages said to do it that way.

I think that user education and accurate publicity would go a long way 
to minimising problem stations.

Ideally we should have a National plan but I'll leave that one alone.

Ray vk2tv

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