[OZAPRS] New HF APRS iGates in VK5 - 30m/40m

[Mark Jessop]

The frequencies are 'dial' frequencies, assuming a 1600/1800 Hz tone pair,
which is what I've got direwolf set up to decode - it's doing a good job!

At the moment I'm hearing your beacons just fine.

73
Mark

On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 1:27 PM Scott Evans <vk7hse at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> Are the frequencies quoted dial frequency or centre frequency?
>
> My 40m gateway is on (dial) 7.049110 LSB. I'm using a modified AEA
> PK232MBX so my tone pair is still 2110/2310Hz so the centre frequency is
> 7.048600
>
> As far as I'm aware there's only two other 40m gateways,
>
> 40m 7048.600kHz LSB
> VK2IO-4 Sydney Primary Net Station (also 7.047.17 LSB)
> VK7HSE-4 Kingston Secondary Net Station
>
>
> The old frequency used to be centred on 7.036 but with the band plan
> changes several years ago the decision was to made to move to the current
> frequency.
>
> Cheers
> ------------------------------
> *From:* OZAPRS <ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au> on behalf of Mark Jessop <
> lenniethelemming at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Saturday, September 5, 2020 12:09:45 PM
> *To:* Australian APRS Users <OZAPRS at aprs.net.au>
> *Subject:* [OZAPRS] New HF APRS iGates in VK5 - 30m/40m
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm now running receive-only HF APRS iGates at the AREG low-noise remote
> HF Receive site, which is north of Adelaide. The antenna is a broadband
> conical monopole. The callsign is currently VK5QI-3.
>
> The receivers are sitting on:
> 30m: 10147.6 kHz USB
> 40m: 7045.2 kHz USB
>
> These iGates are using direwolf, which is hooked into the Airspy HF
> SpyServers which are running up at the site. This allows the receivers to
> be shared amongst many clients, of which the HF APRS decoder is one.
>
> Information on the scripts I'm using to run this is available here:
> https://gist.github.com/darksidelemm/6b60767714295962771bca7b728b343c
>
> The 30m iGate has been running for a while, and has seen stations as far
> away as Europe.
>
> 73
> Mark VK5QI
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