[OZAPRS] Melbourne APRS Digipeater Status

Pete vk3tbn at hotmail.com
Fri Mar 25 07:12:46 EST 2011


Tony,

Firstly thanks for your help while the network was down, I noted that your station gated a my traffic often when inward out east of Melbourne, and gave coverage around the Christmas hills area, where often other digi's didn't or in fact still won't

Could I offer some ideas on 

Regards
Peter Wicklein
L7/31 Queen St Melbourne Vic 3000
Dir +61 3 99273801
Mobile +61 417 277 826

On 24/03/2011, at 22:02, Tony King <vk3api at people.net.au> wrote:

> MUST NOW BE TURNED OFF!!!
> 
> Talk about shades of the old time packet police....   
> 
>  "It would have been much better put to say , "thank you for your assistance and we appreciate your help, to avoid interference please turn off your etc etc"
> 
> As my teenage grandsons say, "we aint actually gotta do nothin"
> 
>                                                                     Regards Tony VK3API
> 
> On 24/03/2011 9:15 PM, Richard Hoskin wrote:
>> 
>>  
>>  
>> Any IGates that have been used to fill in the lack of out of area data / messages must now be turned off or set to receive only and not produce traffic other than their own beacon. If they are left running they will flood the RF network reducing access for others. The official RX Only IGate for Melbourne is VK3TBN
>>  
>> 
>>  
>> Cheers
>> Richard
>> VK3JFK
>>  
>> 
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