<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 05/12/2009, at 12:30 AM, Steve Page wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>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.<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>That</div><div>IS</div><div>AWESOME</div><div><br></div><div>Seriously, thats just fantastic :)</div><div><br></div><div>Although I hate to point out what seems to be the bleedingly obvious, and may have already been discarded for some reason..</div><div><br></div><div>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! :)</div><div><br></div><div>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..</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>DG</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>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</div><div><br></div></div></span></div></body></html>