[OZAPRS] Desert trekking

[Matthew Gledhill]

The TinyTrak does have a setting for "No startup packet" which I guess it's
purpose is like announcing on a repeater "VK2ADF listening"...

Also from memory, you can trigger a TT beacon by flicking between primary
and secondary digi-paths momentarily, if you have built the switch into
your interface cable.

Matt


On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Phil Shields <shields_phil at yahoo.com.au>
wrote:

> I have used both Byonics and Argent. I quite like Argent because the
> documentation is good, the USB connector is handy and i like the scripting
> facility.
> Phil
>
>
>   On Thursday, 4 September 2014, 19:11, Ian Bennett <ibennett at tpg.com.au>
> wrote:
>
>
> Why send just the callsign if there is no valid position to link it to??
> I'm curious as to why you
> would do this.
> This behavior means you have to have an antenna or dummy load connected
> when the TT is powered on
> (unless the radio is powered separately).
>
> Ian
>
> On 04/09/14 18:45, Dom Dahl wrote:
> > The tt3 does beacon when powered on but it doesn't send out a position
> till GPS is locked. So its
> > just the callsign that beacons when powered on. As soon as the GPS locks
> its send another packet
> > with position data.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Dom
> > VK2HJ
> >
> > On 04/09/2014 5:30 pm, "Ian Bennett" <ibennett at tpg.com.au <mailto:
> ibennett at tpg.com.au>> wrote:
> >
> >    Putting on my OpenTracker hat, they already do this; all my
> installations use it. Very handy when
> >    testing.
> >    The opentrackers also "beacon on power on"; still waiting for that
> feature to be written into the
> >    TinyTrak 4 when in Smart Beaconing mode (18 months and counting).
> >    Another annoying habit of the TT3 is it will transmit on power on
> without GPS lock (even though it
> >    was programmed not to). I noticed this on a TT3 buried in a radio
> borrowed from a mate. No feedback
> >    as to when this will be fixed.
> >    Rant over.
> >
> >    Ian
> >
> >    On 04/09/14 17:18, Ian wrote:
> >    >> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 21:28:50 +1000
> >    >> From: Richard Murnane <richard.murnane at internode.on.net
> >    <mailto:richard.murnane at internode.on.net>>
> >    >> To: Australian APRS Users <ozaprs at aprs.net.au <mailto:
> ozaprs at aprs.net.au>>
> >    >> Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] Desert trekking
> >    >> Message-ID: <B4B8C132-74A7-4274-B980-17087C8835F4 at internode.on.net
> >    <mailto:B4B8C132-74A7-4274-B980-17087C8835F4 at internode.on.net>>
> >    >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"
> >    >
> >    > ~Snip ~
> >    >
> >    >> I've always thought it would be nice to have a ?beacon now? button
> >    >> on the TT3, for those times when you want everyone to know where
> you
> >    >> are right now. Of course, one can always cycle the power and wait a
> >    >> minute for the GPS to lock again.
> >    >
> >    >> 73 Richard VK2SKY
> >    >
> >    >
> >    > I'm going from memory, but didn't some models of the Tinytrack have
> a 'PTT In' pin on the
> >    DE-9, and you could configure it to send off a beacon after the PTT
> was released? You could
> >    connect a push button to ground and a pullup resistor to that, tweak
> the settings (possibly
> >    under MIC-E?) and see how you go.
> >    >
> >    > Regards,
> >    > Ian ZL1VFO
> >    >
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