[OZAPRS] VK3MY-4 Invalid Mesage packets

Brian Beamish dinkum at optusnet.com.au
Tue Oct 27 14:32:23 EST 2009


I totally agree once or perhaps twice an hour is sufficient on 30m for fixed
or gateway stations mine when on is every 30 minutes.
73 Brian VK4BBS  
 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: Ray Wells
Date: 24/10/2009 10:09:08 AM
To: Australian APRS Users
Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] VK3MY-4 Invalid Mesage packets
 
Tony,
 
I don't normally have View Bulletins turned on in xastir, but I've just
done so to see if I can report anything.
 
My concern on 30m is the high beacon rate of some stations. Given that
many users, if not most, have dumb trackers I can't see much point in
endlessly banging out beacons from gateway stations. I beacon twice per
hour.
 
No names, no pack drill.
 
vk2tv at tvbbs: ~vk2tvv at tvbbs:~$ mheard 30m
Port 30m:
Callsign  Port Packets   Last Heard
             30m     100   Sat Oct 24 10:53:14
            30m   20592   Sat Oct 24 10:47:46
            30m       4   Sat Oct 24 10:47:33
            30m     207   Sat Oct 24 10:43:52
            30m     964   Sat Oct 24 10:30:45
            30m       7   Sat Oct 24 10:26:40
            30m    5264   Sat Oct 24 10:15:47
            30m     176   Sat Oct 24 09:39:15
            30m      42   Sat Oct 24 09:37:49
            30m      62   Sat Oct 24 09:13:04
            30m      41   Fri Oct 23 23:02:24
            30m     110   Fri Oct 23 18:07:05
            30m       2   Fri Oct 23 15:44:29
           30m      21   Fri Oct 23 12:37:07
          30m       3   Fri Oct 23 11:47:34
vk2tv at tvbbs: ~vk2tv at tvbbs:~$ logout
 
Ray vk2tv
 
 
 
Tony Hunt wrote:
> I was just browsing around as I am still playing on HF with the TNC320 .
> Now with APRSd .
>
> Noticed this info via APRS.fi
> http://aprs.fi/?c=raw&call=VK3my-4
>
> Has anyone else seen this ? 3MY-4 is probably banging out these Bulletin
> frames but has anyone actually seen these on a client like UiView or
> xastir ? I have not seen these via HF so far ..
>
> Not sure whats wrong with the frame but perhaps the 2x Colons is the
> culprit ?
> I somehow remember these Bulletin frames but its been a long time since
> actually noticing them.
>
> I also see lots of objects at times on HF which really is poor practice
> ? Why do we need so many frames containing information on HF when most
> of the stations actually decoding them are the Gateways ? It just steals
> air time from the Trackers !!
>
> I am not going to name callsigns but its just an observation and a
> polite reminder .
>
>
> Tony VK5AH
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