[OZAPRS] Higher beacon rate HF versus VHF?

[vk5ex.andrew at gmail]

Hi all,


Re Davids comment below.

> You sure? They can transmit all they like. Given the poor Rx success 
> rate, they aren't going to cause a whole lot of problems if they  aren't 
> heard by anyone.

Id just like to clarify that we have a truley excellent access rate on 30m 
nowadays. Looking at past logs for various Northern Flinders trips and 
Innaminka trips Ive done over the past couple of years I can say that posit 
to HF gate success rate would be very very close to 100 percent. In fact 
just looking at one of my last track logs on aprs.fi for a Flinders trip we 
did last month, the tracking was excedingly good with only a couple of 
missed posits. I was running a 5 minute beacon rate at about 20 watts on 
that trip. Probably a bit quick for general use on 30m, but it gives a good 
indication of how reliable 30m HF aprs is nowadays.
So perhaps when we refer to poor RX success rates we need to clarify that a 
bit more as to what bands we're talking about etc. !!

Regards .. Andrew .. VK5EX 

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