[OZAPRS] experimenting with rural digipeater

[Bob VK6KW]

Hi Liz,
I hope you have MY CALL = VK2XSE (you do not show a value against it in the
list below!).
My 2c worth.
73,
Bob.

-----Original Message-----
From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
Behalf Of Liz
Sent: Tuesday, 13 November 2012 7:23 AM
To: ozaprs at aprs.net.au
Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] experimenting with rural digipeater

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:37:53 +1030
Matthew Cook <vk5zm at bistre.net> wrote:

> Liz,
> 
> You only need to lob your packet into the general vincinity of an 
> iGate for it to hit the net, the iGate itself doesn't participate in 
> the digipeating sequence in the normal sense.  An iGate only takes 
> what it hears off the channel and jams it into the APRS-IS network.
> You might notice on the end of the packet in your original email that 
> the iGate has tacked on "qAR,VK1KCM" this tells APRS-IS which iGate 
> gated the packet.  You will also notice the packet had been digi'd by 
> VKJ2RGF & VK2RGI over-air before being heard by VK1KCM.
> 
> For the majority of home stations WIDE2-2 is usually enough to hit an 
> iGate in many regions.  You might also find that in your local area 
> there is another alias that allows you to keep your packets contained 
> to an area, but this depends entirely on how the APRS digi's are 
> configured in your area.  Using the alias allows you to steer your 
> packets towards an iGate, provided there is one within your coverage 
> area.  In Adelaide we can digi to ADEL2-2 which is like a wide2-2 but 
> won't escape into the mid north APRS network, these packets from home 
> stations are gated straight into the net by two local iGates.
> 
> Try WIDE2-2 and watch aprs.fi to see how often your packets get into 
> the network.  For home stations you'd be trying to hit the APRS-IS 
> servers every 30mins.  See how you go.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Matthew
> VK5ZM
> 

I just took a little drive, and while I got packets to VK2XSE-1 and
apparently onto VK2RGF-1 (data from radios) none of them reached the
internet that way, just two packets which were received by VK2RGF-1 direct.
Obviously something on the radio at home isn't set correctly so I'm thinking
of getting the computer on the job as I understand its programming a little
better.
Home Radio currently
Digipeat ON, my call
UIDIGI on, wide1-1, wide2-1
UIFLOOD off
UITRACE on, wide
will try
UIDIGI wide1-1, wide2-2
as there are actually five or six hops to the iGates, just that the Wagga
linked repeater system only counts itself once.

Liz
VK2XSE
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