[OZAPRS] 30m APRS situation

[Bob Cameron]

Thanks everyone for your remarks.

It appears then that there are 8x 30m IGates in VK, of which only 2 
transmit.

Whether these iGates will send messages IS-RF depends on their software 
defaults and/or settings.

I can quite happily send a message by RF. I realised that since the 
client (Xastir) was also listening on the Internet port an ack might 
have came in that way. Shall try without.

If successful I'll probably end up writing a quick and dirty script that 
uses kissutil with direwolf. ie create KISS packets directly. This will 
also handle the need to QSY the rig.

Cheers Bob VK2YQA


On 29/6/21 9:19 am, Bob Cameron wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> First post, information sponging!
>
> - Am a permanent road dweller wandering around VK. More bouncing off 
> the borders at the moment of course. Most of my time is out in the 
> sticks/remote so Internet and 2m nodes aren't a lot of help. I only 
> use amateur radio for HF.
>
> - I time share the Icom 9100 on 30m voice and APRS whilst also logging 
> 145.825 sats. (RX only) It QSY's magically every 10 minutes, sends two 
> FX25 packets, waits a few more seconds then takes me back where I was.
>
> - Using an SSID of 12
>
> Questions
>
> - Are there any 30m RF transmitting IGates in VK? It would be nice to 
> use short messaging.
>
> - Assuming there are, what is the retry/timeout period from the IS and 
> could an ack be sent by another path sometime later?
>
> - I assume messaging has been blocked on the satellite systems?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Cheers Bob VK2YQA
>