[OZAPRS] SEQLD Recommendations

[Dion Bramich]

There have been offers made to setup and maintain a Tasmanian section, but

seems the offer was rejected..

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:29:48 +1000, Richard Hoskin <vk3jfk at amsat.org>  
wrote:

>
> 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 Yes I realise some of the web page information is out of date.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
>
>> -----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:
>>
>> >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.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> ---
>> >Andrew Rich VK4TEC
>> >vk4tec at people.net.au
>> >http://www.tech-software.net
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> 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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