[OZAPRS] findu

[Geoff]

Ian,

You didn't digi the RELAY...  Because you heard the beacon direct on RF your
system gated it. What you are seeing is the preserved path in the original
beacon.

Karl - You should use a path of WIDE1-1,WIDE2-2 in VK2 generally, however
given you are airborne that will definitely trigger a lot of digis :-)   

Using just WIDE2-1 may not be enough if you happen to be on the 'far' side
of a digi's coverage area if there are no IGates served by that digi. Our
IGates in VK2 are positioned so that users are generally no more then 2 digi
hops from an IGate, but if you were in the midpoint region between IGates
WIDE2-1 wouldn't quite get you far enough.

I think if you use  WIDE2-2  you should be safe.  This will make sure that
you can still reach an IGate in 2 hops.   

Regards,
Geoff  VK2XJG


-----Original Message-----
From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
Behalf Of Ian Mills
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 4:40 PM
To: 'VK / ZL APRS Users'
Subject: [OZAPRS] findu

The weird thing is that it was my WIDE1-1 digi (VK2HIM-1) that heard Karl
34km away
and gated it to the net.
I am setup to digi WIDE1-1 and VK2HIM-1 and as the Illawarra Igate, so I
don't know how I managed
to digi a RELAY?
Here is the raw data from aprs.fi as I too find it better than findu
http://aprs.fi/info/VK2GKA-7 <http://aprs.fi/info/VK2GKA-7> 
2008-03-11 11:02:40 EST: VK2GKA-7
<http://aprs.fi/?c=raw&limit=&call=VK2GKA-7>
>APT311,RELAY,WIDE2-2,qAo,VK2HIM-1
<http://aprs.fi/?c=raw&limit=&call=VK2HIM-1>
:!3436.68S/15029.60E>079/140/A=006341/Aircraft callsign VH-KAX RV7A

Cheers
Ian
>Karl,



>The use of WIDE and RELAY is being phased out - hopefully it's been 

>completed by now!

>

>Normally a mobile would use the path WIDE1-1, WIDE2-1 but from 6000ft 

>you could cause a lot of QRM by triggering a lot of systems to respond. 

>You might be better with the path of WIDE2-1.

>

>Anyone else care to comment?

>

>Ray vk2tv

>

>Karl Ahamer wrote:



>Hi all,

>Had my APRS station up in the air today (VK2GKA-7)but got only 1frame

>into the system.I was at 6000feet so I thought to get a lot more.The

>setting I'm using is:relay,wide2-2  is this ok?

>

>Cheers

>Karl

>VK2GKA at Mittagong

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