[OZAPRS] Project Horus Repeater Flight this Sunday

[Josh Mesilane]

At 300mW I don't think the Horus guys are going to have a problem getting
in to either a Digi or an IGate

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Mark Jessop <lenniethelemming at gmail.com>wrote:

>  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>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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