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<DIV>Thats all true Josh but as per what we observed previously it all becomes
an issue when the Balloon gets close to landing and the footprint shrinks. It
can hover about and change direction as the weather patterns vary in the lower
troposphere . It usually lands a long way from any Igates or Digis in the Mallee
so any help it can get at about 3000 feet and below all helps. </DIV>
<DIV>As far as flooding the network goes (in VK5) I really couldnt care for
the short time its going to be up there and the things that can be learned
and gained by running it</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>Tony Hunt VK5AH <A
href="mailto:wavetel@internode.on.net">wavetel@internode.on.net</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=zindello@chibiko.net href="mailto:zindello@chibiko.net">Josh
Mesilane</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=wavetel@internode.on.net
href="mailto:wavetel@internode.on.net">Tony Hunt</A> ; <A
title=ozaprs@aprs.net.au href="mailto:ozaprs@aprs.net.au">Australian APRS
Users</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 11, 2012 1:54
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [OZAPRS] Project Horus
Repeater Flight this Sunday</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>With the height that the Horus guys get on their baloons, I
don't think that only going via one digi is going to be a problem :) They'll
most likely be hitting multiple digis across a very very wide area. You have
to remember that they'll have line of sight to quite a large geographical area
once the payload is in the air, and any path other than a WIDE2-1 could very
easily flood the network.<BR><BR>Mark/Grant how much power are you running on
the APRS payload?<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Tony Hunt <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:wavetel@internode.on.net">wavetel@internode.on.net</A>></SPAN>
wrote:<BR>
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class=gmail_quote>Grant.. WIDE2-1 wont guarantee a path into an Igate for
you. Try WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1 which is 2 hops via a fillin digi if needed. This
is particularly relavant when your working from the East VK5/3 border and
into 5RMB 5BRC . Although 5RLD has been a bigger help in the past over
there.<BR><BR>Hope it all works out. I will probably be in Renmark so might
listen in to it all.<BR><BR>Tony Hunt VK5AH<BR><BR>----- Original Message
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class=gmail_quote><BR><BR>VK5ARG-11 will also fly on APRS on 145.175 -
beaconing to WIDE2-1 (so that it makes it into an
I-Gate)<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV>
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