[OZAPRS] 30m APRS situation

[Bob Cameron]

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