[OZAPRS] RGI digi too big a coverage ?

[Josh]

Hi Ian,

I've checked the heard lists for the last few months and I don't think
it will be a problem.
You were regularly hearing RGI when it was operational, but AMW wasn't.
Assuming Canberra locals were using the recommended path
'WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1', frames being digipeated by RGI would leave with the
remaining path WIDE2-1 if they were heard directly, or no free path if
they were heard via RMB.
So worse case you would digi the frame with a now-full path, which would
be heard by AMW but dropped.
It appears that most of the Sydney basin can't directly hear your digi,
so wouldn't hear Canberra traffic via you.

As far as I know, up until September RGI was operating as a W2 digi and
congestion in Sydney wasn't an issue then (except on the roads, but we
can't blame APRS for that!)

If you want to see how much APRS traffic there is (or isn't) on RF in
S/W Sydney, my igate's live log is available at http://aprs.vk2hff.ampr.org/

- Josh VK2HFF

On 6/11/2017 12:34 PM, Ian Mills wrote:
> 
> [>] At  11:40:11 +1100 Josh wrote:
> 
> [>]  The Canberra traffic won't make it into Sydney due to RHR being a
> [>]  W1-only, and there's not a great deal of APRS traffic anywhere else
> [>]  within range so it shouldn't cause any congestion issues providing you
> [>]  keep the power level sensible.
> 
> Canberra traffic will get to Sydney via my igate/digi vk2him-1 at Gerringong.
> [>] 
> I hear RGI-1 frequently and AMW-1 always so Sydney will be getting Canberra traffic via me/AMW unless I also change my current Wide2-1 to Wide1 only ... but my change to Wide1 isn't helpful for local traffic who can't reach AMW-1 direct due to the local topology.
> 
> Ian vk2him
> 
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