[OZAPRS] iGates and RF

[VK6 UFO]

>
> The main Igate in VK3 feeds out posits for VK3 and (I think) any station
> within a few 100Km range.
>
> Without that traffic I would only see stations that have enough digi hops
> to make it to North East VK3.
>
> I am about three digi hops from Melbourne, so most stations don’t make it
> this far.
>
> VK2 /VK1 does something different and I see very little traffic from there.
>
>
The one thing that drives Bob above all else is the intention for APRS
(Quote:)
*It is a two-way tactical real-time digital communications system between
all assets in a network sharing information about everything going on in the
local area.*
So he will always stress the *local area* for RF. He would consider 'a few
100 km' out of local range. This is also why he gets pretty vocal when
stations use large WIDE values. Of course, what exactly rates as *local* is
a bit subjective. We don't have 310 million people jammed into the same area
in VK.

On the other hand, if it's not creating a large volume of traffic in your
local area then who cares :-)
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Rob VK6UFO
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