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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Steve,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I got your mail via Grant yesterday – No idea why the
qrz.com one bounced……<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>As the others have mentioned, the way to do this is definitely set
up a WIDE digipeater at the repeater site, your best bet would be an FM828 and
TNC2 running UIDigi firmware – that way you are standardized with the rest
of the digipeaters in VK. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>The IGate you would run from home, or anywhere with Internet
access and enough RF coverage to get to the digipeater. The IGate needs
to run a proper APRS-IS client, eg UIView, Xastir or if it’s only going
to be a ‘headless’ IGate run javAPRSSrvr.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>You can’t just connect to the APRS server IP’s and
send the data from the TNC in – it has to be reformatted into the APRS-IS
format, which adds IGate headers and loop detection fields and more…..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Geoff VK2XJG<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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ozaprs-bounces@aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces@aprs.net.au] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Damien
Gardner Jnr<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, December 05, 2009 8:14 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Australian APRS Users<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OZAPRS] APRS questions from VK6HV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On 05/12/2009, at 12:30 AM, Steve Page wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I have acquired or have access to the following equipment.
Tiny <br>
Tracker3, Tiny Tracker 4, a model BF-430 RS-232 to TCP/IP converter, <br>
NetComm N3G002W 3G router and a PCMCIA GSM? (2G) Modem. The NetComm <br>
Router, PCMCIA card and another BF-430 RS-232 to IP are already being <br>
successfully used in an AIS system almost exactly what I am trying to <br>
achieve except the AIS system uses a receiver on 161 and 162 Mhz. rather <br>
then 145.175 Mhz.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>That<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>IS<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>AWESOME<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Seriously, thats just fantastic :)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Although I hate to point out what seems to be the bleedingly
obvious, and may have already been discarded for some reason..<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Why are you trying to put the igate on the repeater site??
The usual way to do it, is setup a WIDE digi at your repeater site, and
then just have the igate *somewhere* within reception range of the digi..
- that way it can live at your house, and you don't have to worry about
getting data out over expensive 3G, or having all that complicationg in a shack
on a hill that you might not be able to get to easily (the VK1 WIDE isn't
accessible half the year..). I'm pretty sure every state runs their iGate
from a ham's house/place of work, rather than putting it up on the mountain :)
Although seems a shame to do away with that awesome setup you've cobbled
together! :)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>As gavin said, you'll need to login to the APRS server after
connecting (and please use the rotate.aprs.net.au hostname rather than an IP
address - otherwise you're going to have to go for a drive up the hill when the
IP of the server you're using changes! - and being on 3G, I'd probably have it
set a filter that sends you pretty much nothing (basically just want you want
to send out onto RF), to keep your downloaded data down. Bear in mind a
standard VK/ZL feed from one of the .aprs.net.au servers is ~300bytes/sec on
average (6kbytes/sec average for the last hour on second, with 21 clients),
which works out around 700mbytes/month of downloaded data on the normal VK/ZL
feed..<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>DG<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Damien Gardner Jnr<br>
VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust<br>
<a href="mailto:rendrag@rendrag.net">rendrag@rendrag.net</a> - <a
href="http://www.rendrag.net/">http://www.rendrag.net/</a><br>
--<br>
We rode on the winds of the rising storm,<br>
We ran to the sounds of thunder.<br>
We danced among the lightning bolts,<br>
and tore the world asunder<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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