[OZAPRS] 30m APRS situation

Ian Bennett ibennett at tpg.com.au
Tue Jun 29 14:02:00 AEST 2021


This one addressed to the list :-

My RX only igate is still there. Didn't realize it had been up that long!!!
The antennas do need a bit of love, but that will have to wait until we get home. We are stuck in 
Qld at the moment.

Ian
VK1IAN

On 29/6/21 1:21 pm, Wade Smith wrote:
> Regular RX stations on 40 are vk7hse, vk2io, vh5arg and there is a vk6 too. Plus a couple of mobiles.
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> On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 at 13:20, Wade Smith <wade.vk1 at gmail.com <mailto:wade.vk1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Dial 7045.2 USB 1600/1800 tones. In fact!
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>     On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 at 13:18, Grant VK5GR <vk5gr.radio at gmail.com <mailto:vk5gr.radio at gmail.com>>
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>         Phil,____
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>         That list unfortunately looks horribly out of date. 40m is now up on 7050 I think? (7046
>         USB), VK5LY hasn’t been with us for several years unfortunately and I wonder how many of
>         those stations are still there? (The list was dated 2014).____
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>         Does anyone have any more up to date info I wonder?
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>         Grant VK5GR____
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>         *From:*OZAPRS [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au <mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au>] *On
>         Behalf Of *Phil Shields
>         *Sent:* Tuesday, 29 June 2021 10:14 AM
>         *To:* Australian APRS Users
>         *Subject:* Re: [OZAPRS] 30m APRS situation____
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>         hi, here is a list of gateways.HF Gateways | APRS.NET.AU
>         <http://www.aprs.net.au/hf/hf-gateways/>____
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>             HF Gateways | APRS.NET.AU <http://APRS.NET.AU>____
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>         On Tuesday, 29 June 2021, 09:21:02 am AEST, Bob Cameron <bob3bob3 at skymesh.com.au
>         <mailto:bob3bob3 at skymesh.com.au>> wrote: ____
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>         Hi everyone____
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>         First post, information sponging!____
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>         - Am a permanent road dweller wandering around VK. More bouncing off the ____
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>         borders at the moment of course. Most of my time is out in the ____
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>         sticks/remote so Internet and 2m nodes aren't a lot of help. I only use ____
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>         amateur radio for HF.____
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>         - I time share the Icom 9100 on 30m voice and APRS whilst also logging ____
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>         145.825 sats. (RX only) It QSY's magically every 10 minutes, sends two ____
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>         FX25 packets, waits a few more seconds then takes me back where I was.____
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>         - Using an SSID of 12____
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>         Questions____
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>         - Are there any 30m RF transmitting IGates in VK? It would be nice to ____
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>         use short messaging.____
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>         - Assuming there are, what is the retry/timeout period from the IS and ____
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>         could an ack be sent by another path sometime later?____
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>         - I assume messaging has been blocked on the satellite systems?____
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>         Many thanks____
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>         Cheers Bob VK2YQA____
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