[OZAPRS] APRS 101 guide for newbies & 2 hops vs 3 hops

[Nik Presser]

G'day Peter, 

No worries. After getting my 710A up and running Fri night, there seemed to be a lot of activity and during Saturday also. It all went quiet Sunday but ok on Monday & Tuesday - I think. 

Keep up the good work. 

Cheers,

Nik Presser
VK3BA
Geelong
http://www.qrz.com/callsign/VK3BA
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Pete 
  To: Australian APRS Users 
  Cc: <ozaprs at aprs.net.au> 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 1:45 PM
  Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] APRS 101 guide for newbies & 2 hops vs 3 hops


  Nik


  Hi should only be two hops to the nearest igate. Having said that Melbourne metro is without a digi and an igate at the moment, I am transferring my 70 cm igate on onto 2m tonight, it should be up later in the evening, Any reports would be appreciated. Look around 20:30, it should be up and testing then



  On 31/01/2011, at 19:01, "Nik Presser" <nikp007 at bigpond.com> wrote:


    G'day all on the list, 

    Just a couple more questions from a newbie...

    1. I see the default for WIDE1-1 WIDE2-1 on the TM-D710A is two hops. It looks like there was a bit of a network outage or similar yesterday in Western VK3 for a few hours so I've changed the radio to 3 hops. Does going to 3 hops put extra load on the network? Most of my travel will be in VK3 and VK5. 

    2. Does anyone have a link to something like an APRS 101 or APRS for Newbies at all? Either a VK or international version would probably do. 

    I'm using VK3BA-9

    Thanks.

    Cheers,

    Nik Presser
    VK3BA
    Geelong
    http://www.qrz.com/callsign/VK3BA
    _______________________________________________
    OZAPRS mailing list
    OZAPRS at aprs.net.au
    http://lists.aprs.net.au/mailman/listinfo/ozaprs



------------------------------------------------------------------------------


  _______________________________________________
  OZAPRS mailing list
  OZAPRS at aprs.net.au
  http://lists.aprs.net.au/mailman/listinfo/ozaprs
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.aprs.net.au/pipermail/ozaprs/attachments/20110202/d34aa69b/attachment.htm>