[OZAPRS] SEQLD Recommendations

[Ray Wells]

Hello Richard,

Please don't think I was being critical of the page maintainers. I know 
only too well what being snowed under is like, and how so much is left 
to so few to do.

The point was that newcomers could easily head off in the wrong 
direction as a result of incorrect data being available and hence, they 
could have a valid reason for doing what they've done.

I'm not sure that I'm the best qualified person to assist with the page 
update but I'd be happy to cast an eye over it and send you a text file 
of any glaring things that could/should be changed.

Cheers ... Ray

>Hi Ray,
>
>Yes I realise some of the web page information is out of date.
>I'm trying to find the time to update the VK3 and National web pages.
With
>everything else that is about to happen /happening it's hard to do it all
in
>a timely manner.
>
>Any help in updating the National web page ( www.aprs.net.au )would be
>appreciated.
>
>Cheers
>Richard
>VK3JFK
>
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>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
>>Behalf Of Ray Wells
>>Sent: Tuesday, 18 September 2007 7:28 AM
>>To: vk4tec at people.net.au; VK / ZL APRS Users
>>Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] SEQLD Recommendations
>>
>>Andrew Rich wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>>It is only until others started having a "guess" at what to do things
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>>fell
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>>>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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