[OZAPRS] RE. Making Contact

[JandG]

Dave,

Thanks also for your reply.

Starting to make sense now.

Can I just ask another question:

When my 710 transmits a packet and after a second or two three I see on my 
display "My Position" (The actual words) accompanied by a different beep. 
Sometimes this happens once and sometimes 2-3 times after each other. Am I 
right in saying that that is because I am receiving kind of my packet back 
from a digipeater or a few digipeaters?


Also, sometimes I hear the digital audio on 145.175 meaning it must have had 
the squelch tone 91.5 on to get though on my set but I do not see any 
details on my screen. Is this because the packet was not de-cypherable or 
valid?

Kind regards,
Gerard
VK2JNG


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Walmsley" <dave at hunterlink.net.au>
To: "Australian APRS Users" <ozaprs at aprs.net.au>
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] RE. Making Contact


> 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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