[OZAPRS] Project Horus Repeater Flight this Sunday

Mark Jessop lenniethelemming at gmail.com
Wed Apr 11 14:25:40 EST 2012


300mW. We've always flown WIDE2-1 in the past, with success.
We've often been able to get into an igate via VK5RSC during the final 
stages of descent, so I don't think we'll have a problem.

- Mark VK5QI

On 11/04/12 1:54 PM, Josh Mesilane wrote:
> With the height that the Horus guys get on their baloons, I don't 
> think that only going via one digi is going to be a problem :) They'll 
> most likely be hitting multiple digis across a very very wide area. 
> You have to remember that they'll have line of sight to quite a large 
> geographical area once the payload is in the air, and any path other 
> than a WIDE2-1 could very easily flood the network.
>
> Mark/Grant how much power are you running on the APRS payload?
>
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Tony Hunt <wavetel at internode.on.net 
> <mailto:wavetel at internode.on.net>> wrote:
>
>     Grant.. WIDE2-1 wont guarantee a path into an Igate for you. Try
>     WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1 which is 2 hops via a fillin digi if needed. This
>     is particularly relavant when your working from the East VK5/3
>     border and into 5RMB 5BRC . Although 5RLD has been a bigger help
>     in the past over there.
>
>     Hope it all works out. I will probably be in Renmark so might
>     listen in to it all.
>
>     Tony Hunt VK5AH
>
>     ----- Original Message ----- :
>
>
>
>         VK5ARG-11 will also fly on APRS on 145.175 - beaconing to
>         WIDE2-1 (so that it makes it into an I-Gate)
>
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