<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Ian,<div><br></div><div>WIDE2-1 is a globally acceptable path for balloons, recommended by Bob Bruninga WB4APR, the founder of APRS.<br><div><br></div><div>Int the early days of APRS pico balloon flights over the eastern states, some effort was made to check for impact to the network from a high altitude balloon using WIDE2-1, and no issues were observed with a 5 minute TX interval.</div><div><br></div><div>PS-61 transmits one compressed APRS packet every 5 minutes in full sun, and every 10 minute at night.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Andy VK3YT</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br><div><div>On 21 Feb 2016, at 1:40 pm, Ian Bennett <<a href="mailto:ibennett@tpg.com.au">ibennett@tpg.com.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<tt>Reported from <a href="http://aprs.fi">aprs.fi</a>:<br>
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Last path: <span style="vertical-align: middle;">VK3YT-12>APZ269
via WIDE2-1,qAS,<a href="http://aprs.fi/info/VK3VHF-1">VK3VHF-1</a></span>
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This station appears to be flying at high altitude and using
digipeaters, which causes serious congestion in the APRS network.
The tracker should be configured to only use digipeaters when at low
altitude.<br>
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<tt>You might want to revisit your path settings ???<br>
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Ian<br>
VK1IAN<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 21/02/16 10:44, A Nguyen wrote:<br>
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Hi all,
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<div>FYI,</div>
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<div>PS-61 APRS PICO balloon is heading north from Melbourne</div>
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<div>Solar powered party balloon, 10mW TX</div>
<div>APRS on 145.175Mh, call sign VK3YT-12</div>
<div><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://aprs.fi/#%21mt=roadmap&z=7&call=a/VK3YT-12&timerange=86400&tail=86400">http://aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&z=7&call=a%2FVK3YT-12&timerange=86400&tail=86400</a></div>
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<div>Olivia 8/250 on 434.650Mhz (Dial frequency 434.649Mhz,
starting tone at 1kHz) RSID enabled.</div>
<div>Tracked on SNUS as PS-61 </div>
<div><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://tracker.habhub.org/#%21mt=roadmap&mz=6&qm=1_day&f=PS-61">http://tracker.habhub.org/#!mt=roadmap&mz=6&qm=1_day&f=PS-61</a></div>
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<div>Tracking info <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://picospace.net/?p=736">http://picospace.net/?p=736</a></div>
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<div>Currently at 9400m alt east of Melbourne.</div>
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<div>Prediction: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://picospace.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/NewImage3.png">http://picospace.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/NewImage3.png</a></div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Andy VK3YT</div>
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