[OZAPRS] Fill In Digi needed

[vk2tv]

I'm not voting either way on rx only igates. Some scribes on a US aprs 
list claim they break messaging but what's the experience in the land of 
Oz? I've personally found aprs messaging to be useless; maybe others 
have used it with success. Just asking out of curiosity.

Ray vk2tv


On 07/11/17 14:56, Matthew Cook wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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