[OZAPRS] Filling in a black hole.

[Josh Mesilane]

Hi All,

I've just set up an RX-Only (with ident) IGate in South West Melbourne
(after consulting my co-ordinator) as I was seeing quite a lot of traffic
not making it in to the existing IGates in Melbourne either due to traffic
congestion, or a mobile station not making it into a Digi.

Would an RX IGate (with ident) suffice to fill this black hole? It helps
improve the RF -> APRS-IS coverage without adding unnecessary traffic to
the RF network? The ident on my IGate is set to every 20 minutes.

Are you trying to increate RF coverage, or RF -> APRS-IS coverage?

Cheers,
Josh

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Geoff Gatward <geoff-lists at gatwards.org>wrote:

> Justin,
>
> Are there digipeaters at RHR and RGN already?
> That was one of the projects that I was trying to push when I was looking
> after things in Sydney but never got any traction.
>
> If CORRECTLY CONFIGURED digipeaters are placed on RHR and RGN, NO IGATE
> would be required at all.
> (I have the original UIDigi configurations that we prepared for RHR and
> RGN if you would like them)
>
> Traffic hitting RGN would digi through 1RGI and be picked up by the VK1
> IGate, and traffic hitting RHR would digi off 2US and be picked up by the
> Sydney IGate.  You certainly don't want to push anything out onto RF in the
> area, as there is already traffic being gated out via 2US and 1RGI, and the
> path that the IGates are using to transmit the data would mean that RHR/RGN
> would be included in the distribution of that traffic.
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Geoff  VK8GG/VK2XJG
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Justin Albury <justin at jacomms.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hell to you all.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> I am after advice for setting up APRS IGATE & Digipeaters.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> This will be to fill in the big Black Hole between Mittagong, Goulburn, ½
>> way to Yass from Goulburn and Lake George.****
>>
>> These are all locations that have very limited access to other stations.*
>> ***
>>
>> I would like to Setup a IGATE on a Linux server to pass all the data to
>> and from the internet****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> VK2RHR < - - - > VK2RGN < - - - > VK2TDB****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> RGN can see both RHR &TDB****
>>
>> HJA(IGATE Location) can see RGN ****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> I would like to set the system up to not increase traffic on RGI or any
>> Sydney Digi’s but push all the traffic back through the local IGATE.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Thanks in advance****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> 73’s****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Justin – VK2HJA****
>>
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