[OZAPRS] RGI/RBM/Griffith digis

Glen English VK1XX glenlist at pacificmedia.com.au
Thu Nov 2 11:03:55 AEDT 2017


and UHF would be easier, run 100W or something. so u are thinking as a
distribution backbne, rather than users listening to it ?


On 2/11/2017 10:56 AM, Matthew Cook wrote:
> If you've got the ability why not go 9600 baud on 70cm for a APRS-IS
> -> RF gateway.  There is a channel already in the band plan for such
> activities, nothing says it has to be 1200 baud.  There are plenty of
> radios out there now that can do 9600 baud, direwolf would eat it for
> breakfast.
>
> That has been something in the back of my mind to get installed here
> in Adelaide for a trial at some point.
>
> 73
>
> Matthew
> VK5ZM
>
> On 2 November 2017 at 09:12, Glen English VK1XX
> <glenlist at pacificmedia.com.au <mailto:glenlist at pacificmedia.com.au>>
> wrote:
>
>     Josh, I think the RF message forwarding could be done. That would
>     provide a reasonable utility for the region.
>
>     Yeah will seek to add another transceiver channel up there, which is
>     actually non trivial but on the list. Maybe 7575, UHF or 6m dunno.
>
>     Make the most of the super site.
>
>     g
>
>
>     On 1/11/2017 5:42 PM, Josh wrote:
>     > I can't see a good reason to put an igate there, unless you were
>     > thinking of dropping the digipeater function altogether.
>     > There's multiple igates with reliable and fast internet links within
>     > RGI's footprint, so leave it to them rather than wasting your
>     limited
>     > bandwidth.
>     >
>     > But if you have the link available, setting up APRS-IS->RF message
>     > forwarding could be a great service addition considering the
>     range and
>     > general area that RGI covers.
>     > Bandwidth requirements would be extremely low too.
>     >
>     > - Josh VK2HFF
>     >
>     > On 1/11/2017 4:43 PM, Glen English VK1XX wrote:
>     >
>     >> The Ginini  IP access, at least in the short term is a low
>     bandwidth ~
>     >> half duplex 50 kbps UHF IP bridge. good for SSH, remote control of
>     >> things. How many bytes (UDP payload) is the IGATE "upload"
>     >>
>     >> ?
>     >>
>     >> given the APRS UI "pollution" of 5175 , we'll probably put a second
>     >> channel on the direwolf and run different freq for connected
>     mode stuff
>     >> for WICEN...
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