[OZAPRS] Re: Re: Your signal....

[Jack Chomley]

At 11:19 PM 4/1/2009, you wrote:
>Hey Guys ,  Jack and David
>
>Just noticed a couple of wrong things going on .. I think your on 40m.. I am
>still on 20m and have nothing to report as recieved here except ZL2TZE-4 at
>times over the last 3 days. So 20m seems pretty dead to me.
>
>Now Jack your frames are address in the TO field as GATE .. This is wrong.
>You should be addressing per the APRS spec to something like APxxxx acording
>to your software or TNC which Ive no idea what it might be. Perhaps this is
>being generated by the SCS TNC .. The path should be Via GATE,WIDE2-1 on HF.
>With the TO field set like that many software packages will ignore it . If
>you dont know what to set it to then try APRS in the TO field. Packages like
>UiView and xastir set these fields themselves by default.
>
>David,  Your not quite there either. Your Path should be Via GATE,WIDE2-1
>not just via WIDE2 .. Thats a general rule on HF
>
>Tony VK5AH

Hi Tony,

Have now changed to APRS GATE WIDE2-1 which I hope is correct. Have 
been on 40 metres all day and all tonight so David could get his 
system hardware going OK, which he has.
The SCS path field can be edited to anything, the manual has all the 
old references to RELAY etc.

73  Jack  VK4JRC



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