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On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 10:54 +1000, Gerard Hill wrote:<BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">Me too, Scott! Your 1200 bd beacon usually makes it to the APRS-IS first </FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">so the HF one is not recorded. You are being heard though.</FONT></TT><BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">The IGates have been pretty well synchronised on 40m, so its only </FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">propagation and antenna directionality that's limiting reception.</FONT></TT> <BR>
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I'd be concerned if my 1k2 didn't hit the APRS_IS as I'm a T2 server these days! but yes I have bumped the Tx power to 50w to see if that helps at all... the setup here on 40m is sub optimal at best so I'm really expecting too much of it I think!<BR>
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Scott Evans <<A HREF="mailto:scott@vk7hse.hobby-site.org">scott@vk7hse.hobby-site.org</A>>
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