[OZAPRS] More testing of a home brew HF APRS transmitter

[Gordon VK4VP]

Hi Peter,
	I have used an OT1 for HF at times and yes you need to use 10.147.09
as the tones generated are 510Hz higher than the "others" such as TT3 etc.
I know this because I use a PK-232 at home for decoding and it has the same
issue with regards to tones.  Took me a while in the early days to work that
out....

Regards,
Gordo VK4VP

-----Original Message-----
From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
Behalf Of Peter Schrader
Sent: Wednesday, 6 July 2011 09:24
To: ozaprs at aprs.net.au
Subject: [OZAPRS] More testing of a home brew HF APRS transmitter

Sorry to bother you all again, but I am determined to get this right.

With thanks to Gerard re dial frequencies when using AGWPE, I have retuned
the transmitter a fair bit lower today.  In theory non-SCS-DSP TNCs should
able to decode the beacons.

I'd appreciate the iGate operators to take a look at their logs tonight and
let me know if my beacons were heard.

So far today Peter's gate (VK3TBN) and Gerard's gate (VK2IO) have gated the
beacons to the APRS-IS, which makes me believe I got it right.  
Larry's (VK5LY) gate is still decoding them, those SCS TNCs sure are
tolerant!

30m still amazes me, the antenna at home is a homebrew terminated folded
dipole running across a metal roof (effective height above ground no more
than 3 metres), with 15W into a lossy antenna I still make it into VK2, VK3
and VK5 from Brisbane.  Looking forward to seeing how well it works when I
head off into Northern SA in August.

73,
Peter
VK4EA-15

P.S. most importantly, thanks to the HF iGate operators for providing 
their equipment and time.  I really appreciate it.
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