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

[Ray Wells]

Peter,

12 packets logged from vk4ea-15 today and 11 gated to the internet.

Ray vk2tv

On 06/07/11 09:23, 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.
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