[OZAPRS] Fill In Digi needed

[Peter VK2MPJ]

G’day Bob, 

How are you stranger!?

Yes unfortunately the 2MPJ digi was either switched off or fell over a while ago. The problem is, I lost access to the site before I left Nowra and the original ham that got us in there is now a sk :(  It was located at the South Coast Security office in South Nowra.

Are you affiliated with the local club? They have a repeater on Nowra Hill, which is located at a HAMs residence from memory. It was my dream to get a digi up on the hill as it would have filled in the missing link to RGI-1 which was the grand plan for the area.
If you do go down the path of commissioning a digi in the Nowra area again, I am more than happy with the config of it, as it shouldn’t be greatly different to the now defunct 2MPJ-1.

Trust all is well mate. 

de
Pete VK2MPJ

> On 7 Nov 2017, at 1:58 pm, 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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