[OZAPRS] SEQLD Recommendations

[Rodney Mitchell]

On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:31 +1000, 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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> 


Hi Andrew,

Wondering what you are doing for a crust these days? Interested in any R
+D work? Although you probably haven't got time I guess...

Rod.





> 
> -----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
> 
> 
> 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
> > vk4tec at people.net.au <mailto:vk4tec at people.net.au>
> > http://www.tech-software.net
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----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
> >
> >
> > 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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> > -
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> >> 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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