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

Pete vk3tbn at hotmail.com
Wed Jul 6 11:52:06 EST 2011


Pete,

FYI if I gated then I got it via VHF from vk3my-4, who gates rx packets locally ... Good job and great to see your igate on the air!

Regards
Peter 

On 06/07/2011, at 9:23, Peter Schrader <lists at rumpleteazer.net> 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.
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