[OZAPRS] Sgate ui pathe

[Norm McMillan]

Gday Ray and thanks for the reply,

Currently it's a satgate/experiment. It'll eventually be a "remote" area
tracker, so on our travels (remember those?) I can get a couple of posits
or more per day into APRS-IS and maybe send a message. I'm feeding APRS-IS
directly at the moment too,, from both my local iGate and the experimental
sGate. I'll cut the sGate this morning while I do some recabling, then come
back as a simple tracker, path ARISS. We'll soon know I guess.

I've been in Packet radio since the VERY early days, with a TNC-1 and a
Microbee running a terminal. That was a loooooong time ago, and yes, things
have changed. Time some web pages were updated I think.

Enjoy the day!
de Norm VK3XCI
Website: https://vk3xci.wordpress.com/




On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 8:14 AM Ray <aprs at exemail.com.au> wrote:

> Norm,
>
> Is this for a station transmitting to the birds? My gut feeling is that
> with the proliferation of satgate station directly forwarding to the
> aprs-is there's no need for anything except ARISS. My satgate directly
> feeds the aprs-is so "terrestrial" paths are meaningless. I think the
> SGATE part is redundant today because most (all?) satgates directly feed
> the aprs-is. If I had to digi via another station to get to the aprs-is
> I imagine that a terrestrial path such as WIDE2-1 (amended as
> appropriate for local circumstances) would still be required. It's
> possible (probable?) that the use of paths like GATE and SGATE are a
> throwback to earlier days of packet/aprs that preceded the spread of
> economical and widely available internet connections when terrestrial
> VHF/UHF links were used to get to a gateway station.
>
> Maybe the SIAS approach is the way to go. Try the path you've provided
> and gradually eliminate bits to arrive at the minimum requirement for
> you; probably just ARISS.
>
> Ray vk2tv
>
> On 23/3/21 4:10 pm, Norm McMillan wrote:
> > Quick Question, what's the recommended UI path for a SatGate? Internet
> > has much conflicting information. ARISS,SGATE,WIDE2-1
> > de Norm VK3XCI
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> >
> >
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