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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">The main Igate in VK3 feeds out posits for VK3 and (I think) any
station within a few 100Km range.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Without that traffic I would only see stations that have enough
digi hops to make it to North East VK3.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I am about three digi hops from Melbourne, so most stations dont
make it this far.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">VK2 /VK1 does something different and I see very little traffic
from there.</span></p><br clear="all"></div></div></blockquote><div><br>The one thing that drives Bob above all else is the intention for APRS (Quote<font color="#000000" size="3">:)<br><font size="2"><i>It is a two-way tactical real-time digital communications
system between all assets in a network sharing information about everything going on in the
local area.</i> </font></font> </div></div>So he will always stress the <i>local area</i> for RF. He would consider 'a few 100 km' out of local range. This is also why he gets pretty vocal when stations use large WIDE values. Of course, what exactly rates as <i>local</i> is a bit subjective. We don't have 310 million people jammed into the same area in VK.<br>
<br>On the other hand, if it's not creating a large volume of traffic in your local area then who cares :-)<br>-- <br><br>Rob VK6UFO<br><br>