[OZAPRS] Receive only iGates

[Norm McMillan]

Brad,
Go for it, it's a lot of fun and that is what Ham radio is all about! The A
correctly configured APRS network will take care of "loops" as you call them

I ran a Raspberry Pi Zero/Direwolf RX only iGate here in Mildura for quite
some time, using an SDR dongle. I had some reliability issues and reverted
to the "full service" version simply because I had it all set up. Uses an
RPi 3B+, Xastir, TNC2 and a Motorola Transceiver. I'll eventually build it
into a  Pi0/Direwolf/Baofeng full service iGate, but meanwhile ,like Isaid,
it's fun.

Don't worry about naysayers who tell us that rx only iGates Break the APRS
messaging system... that's ancillary to the main objective of APRS. Any
iGate is better than none and getting a posit on APRS-IS is the main
purpose....

Have fun.



de Norm VK3XCI
Website: https://vk3xci.wordpress.com/
Club site: http://sunradio.org.au/



On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 5:29 PM Bradley Clayton <bradley at squarepolka.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I hope you're well.
>
> I'm experimenting with Direwolf and the configuration for a receive only
> i-Gate - RF to Internet only. I wanted to reach out to ask
> if there are any concerns or considerations for this configuration? Just
> want to make sure this approach doesn't cause loops or any other adverse
> affects on the network?
>
> I hope this is an OK place to ask, and thanks in advance.
>
> Cheers,
> Bradley
> VK3LIT
>
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