[OZAPRS] RE. Making Contact

[JandG]

Geoff,

Thanks for that explanation. That is all starting to make a lot more sense.

Still would like to have a yarn one day on air or in person (whatever you 
prefer) to fire a few more questions and or do some trials with some of the 
options and see the results.


Thanks again,
Gerard
VK2JNG


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoff" <geoff at gatwards.org>
To: "'Australian APRS Users'" <ozaprs at aprs.net.au>
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 1:28 PM
Subject: RE: [OZAPRS] RE. Making Contact


> Correct in both cases.
>
> MY POSITION on both the D700 and D710 (MY POS on the D7 HT) indicates that
> the radio has heard its own beacon. The only way this can happen is it has
> heard the digipeated version via one or more digis.   Around Sydney you
> could easily get 3 repeats, as VK2US-1, VK2RAG-1 and VK2RUW-1 have an
> overlap in coverage over parts of Sydney.  If you are out west or up in 
> the
> Lower mountains you could get 4, as VK2RSW-1 Fill-in digi also comes into
> play.
>
> Sometimes you will hear the packet of another VoiceAlert user and not 
> decode
> it - remember it is a SIMPLEX operation, so the other station may be right
> on the edge of your receive capability, or just in a 'bad spot' to you. 
> You
> will probably find that your radio will display the callsign of that 
> station
> as it is heard via the digipeater. . .   So check the next couple of 
> packets
> following the audio you hear - you'll only hear the audio from the 
> original
> station, not the digipeaters - as they don't repeat the subtone :-)
>
> Regards,
> Geoff  VK2XJG
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
> Behalf Of JandG
> Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 10:00 AM
> To: Australian APRS Users
> Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] RE. Making Contact
>
> 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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