[OZAPRS] RE. Making Contact

[Dave Walmsley]

Gerard,

APRS is not common enough that people use it as the first point of contact, 
then move on to voice.  Also, since it is pretty much an automated system, 
there is nothing to say that anyone is actually monitoring traffic, rather 
their computer is just displaying something on the screen which they will 
look at some time.

I think you have a better chance of contacts using 2m voice repeaters.

Dave
VK2XPX

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JandG" <touringaus at bigpond.com>
To: "Australian APRS Users" <ozaprs at aprs.net.au>
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 7:42 PM
Subject: [OZAPRS] RE. Making Contact


Hi all,
I am new to APRS and just got up and running.

Is it just me or my settings or something else but I am finding difficulty 
in making a contact by voice using the "Voice Alert" facility.

I must be doing something wrong but I really thought APRS was all about 
communications (Locally) and would make it easy to get in contact with 
others. I have not have one "Voice Contact" in the last week despite of 
showing my Voice frequency and other details.

Please help,

VK2JNG
Gerard
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