[OZAPRS] Something is wrong, this is a fixed location.

Andrew Rich vk4tec at tech-software.net
Tue Mar 8 19:16:53 EST 2011


To understand the problem you need to be able to break apart packets 



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Andrew Rich

On 08/03/2011, at 8:59, Tim Ahpee <tim at ahpee.org> wrote:

> Hi Ian,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 09:07:25AM +1100, Ian Bennett wrote:
>>    Next I'd be monitoring your transmissions to make sure you aren't overdriving 
>> the radio. If it sounds "harsh" (i.e very loud), then back off the drive a 
>> bit.
> 
> I doubt that this is the problem. The packets are getting into an iGate
> successfully which should mean that the checksum on the packet is valid.
> If you were over-driving the input then you should be making a mess of
> the packets and they should fail checksum at the reciever and not be
> gated. (unless the RX iGate has "pass all" turned on...)
> 
> I like the theory that the packet could be being assembled from bad
> input data (poor GPS fix) or the packet is being corrupted after it has
> been received at the iGate or digipeated. 
> 
> I'm with Gordon though. Looking at the list of packets doesn't seem to
> make a whole lot of sense.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tim
> VK3EF
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