[OZAPRS] Fill In Digi needed

[Matthew Cook]

Hi Bob,

There is nothing wrong with using a WIDE1-1 to fill in a local area,
ideally you want your fill-in digi to hit VK2HIM.  The whole point of a
WIDE1-1, is to pick up local stations and throw them up to the WIDE2's for
distribution.  Once upon a time they were called RELAY's, until the new
WIDEx-n paradigm came into effect.

Your RX only iGate wont cause problems, APRS-IS removes dupes server side
*before* distribution.

I'd +1 APRX as Scott has suggested, you might like to search Owen VK1OD's
website for information on what he worked on previously.  There are some
fixes to APRX's digi system that are well worth the effort (
https://github.com/owenduffy).   I've been running a rPi RX Only iGate here
in VK5 for the past 5 or so years, they work well.

YMMV.

73

Matthew
VK5ZM

On 7 November 2017 at 13:28, Bob <vk2byf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm Bob, VK2BYF, in Nowra
>
> Having lost our local digi some years ago and our local ham population
> being very sparse we seem to have dropped off the APRS map.
>
> My Tiny Track in my motor vehicle can't be heard by the nearest Digi,
> VK2HIM near Gerringong, until I gain some altitude.
>
> To get myself back on the APRS map I decided to build a RX only Igate
> using a Raspberry Pi, RTL-SDR & direwolf which seems to work ok.
>
> I experimented with a laptop running direwolf, KA2DDO's YAAC and a FT-817
> as a fill in digi, Wide 1-1, which also seem to work ok.
>
> The next phase was going to be to setup a RF digi using a cheap Chinese
> VHF/UHF Radio to fill in the local RF hole we have here in the Bomaderry,
> Nowra area.
>
> Knowing very little about APRS but the basics and having been monitoring
> this forum for a while, I have more questions than answers.
>
> A wide 1-1 to fill a local hole is that rite or wrong?
>
> RX only IGate to fill a local RF hole, Is this going to cause problems?
>
> Should I even bother to build a proper RF in and out digi?
>
> What is the best configuration just to fill in a local RF hole and get a
> fair section of the Princes highway back on the map?
>
> BTW I prefer to run things on Linux. YAAC, a java applications work very
> nicely on Linux.
>
> Regards Bob vk2byf
>
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