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

[Gerard Hill]

Hi Peter,

I caught one of your transmissions on the waterfall this morning. As far 
as I can tell you're right on frequency. Nice one!

aprs.fi is down currently so you can monitor here:
http://www.db0anf.de/app/aprs/stations/mobile-VK4EA-15

One IGate station is identifying as GATE (and I've seen this callsign on 
air too). It should be fixed in the configuration i.e. GATE should be 
translated to that station's IGate callsign.

Thanks for posting out the details of your homebrew gear. Time to box it 
up and install it in the mobile I reckon.

Cheers ... Gerard, VK2IO

On 6/07/2011 9:23 AM, Peter Schrader wrote:
> 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.