[OZAPRS] SEQLD Recommendations

Craig Turner craig at craigturner.id.au
Tue Sep 18 17:06:37 EST 2007


It would seem to be the most logical solution to the problems of keeping 
information up to date. What is your solution?

Andrew Rich wrote:
> Oh no not another ^%^#%$# wiki on APRS
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> Andrew Rich VK4TEC
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Wells [mailto:vk2tv at exemail.com.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, 18 September 2007 7:28 AM
> To: vk4tec at people.net.au; VK / ZL APRS Users
> Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] SEQLD Recommendations
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> 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
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>> 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
fell
>> in a heap.
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>> Andrew Rich VK4TEC
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> Hi Andrew and all,
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> 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!
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Andrew, you and I had a minor disagreement one night over SSID's. Again,
> the documentation gives different answers as to their use.
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> 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".
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> 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.
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> I think that user education and accurate publicity would go a long way
> to minimising problem stations.
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> Ideally we should have a National plan but I'll leave that one alone.
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> Ray vk2tv
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