[OZAPRS] SEQLD Recommendations

[Ben Lindner]

Thats the way Andrew, that sort of comment really helps people. NOT.

Not everyone is a rocket scientist remember.
Time for someone to have a cup of cement.

Ben
VK5JFK

Andrew Rich wrote:
> What do you need to say on this wiki ?
>
> How to work out to run your station cause your too dumb to work it out
for
> yourself ?
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> Andrew Rich VK4TEC
> vk4tec at people.net.au <mailto:vk4tec at people.net.au>
> http://www.tech-software.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Turner [mailto:craig at craigturner.id.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, 18 September 2007 5:07 PM
> To: vk4tec at people.net.au; VK / ZL APRS Users
> Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] SEQLD Recommendations
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> 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:
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>> Oh no not another ^%^#%$# wiki on APRS
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>> Andrew Rich VK4TEC
>> vk4tec at people.net.au <mailto:vk4tec at people.net.au>
>> http://www.tech-software.net
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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
>>>
>>> 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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