[OZAPRS] Project Horus Repeater Flight this Sunday

[Phillip]

I would suggest that a read of this info would be a good idea 
 
http://aprs.org/balloons.html 
 
( Taken from the above web site )

DO NOT USE WIDE1-1! Notice that WIDE1-1 should NEVER be used on a balloon or
any other high altitude aircraft or anything that can hit large areas. This
is because most of the WIDE1-1 digipeaters only do callsign substitution and
are not part of the WIDEn-N algorithm. When these packets get delayed for
whatever reason by a second or so, then other digi's hear them and can end
up with multiple dupes from every nearby digipeater. 

PS I did not write this but it has been a hot topic on many APRS groups and
balloon launches 
 
Good luck will, be watching

73 Phillip
ZL2TZE

-------Original Message------- 
 
From: Robert Thirkettle 
Date: 11/04/2012 16:40:21 
To: Australian APRS Users 
Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] Project Hours Repeater Flight this Sunday 
 
Hi All there is no way you can stop 10 digi's from responding to the same
packet if they all hear it direct no path setting gets around that issue. 
I would think wide1-1 would give the fewest hops as every digi will send it
out only once this assumes that every digi is in range of an IGate if not
you need wide1-1,wide2-1 but this is a lot if 10 digi's hear the station
direct that's 30 packets at least? 
 
Regards Rob ZL3RX