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Subj: Ozaprs Digest, Vol 28, Issue 13
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Today's Topics:
1. Mobile beaconing over Christmas break (Geoff)
2. Re: Mobile beaconing over Christmas break (Damien Gardner Jnr)
3. Re: VK2ZEN (Dave Walmsley)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:30:33 +1100
From: "Geoff" <geoff@gatwards.org>
Subject: [OZAPRS] Mobile beaconing over Christmas break
To: "'VK / ZL APRS Users'" <ozaprs@aprs.net.au>
Hi Everyone,
With the Christmas holiday period fast approaching, and our national APRS
network maturing and providing more and more coverage, I'm wondering how
many users out there will be mobile between states and into areas with
little to no VHF APRS coverage..
We're interested to see what the ACTUAL coverage of some of the 'fringe'
digipeaters is. Some examples are
a) The Northern section of NSW - There is a digipeater on the Gold
Coast (VK4RGO) that has coverage down towards Ballina,,, how far does it
actually extend??
b) Coverage north of Newcastle - How far out towards Singleton and
Forster does the new digipeater at Maitland cover ??
c) Coverage down the South Coast - How far does VK2AMW-2 and VK2TVZ
really cover ??
d) Where are the real dead spots between Adelaide and the VK3 border ?
So if you are driving around over the Chrismas break, please DON'T turn off
your APRS beacons just because there may not be any digipeaters nearby..
There are some active plots happening of the actual coverage so every beacon
sent in these fringe areas counts, and will help us plan future digipeater
sites
Regards,
Geoff VK2XJG
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:05:09 +1100
From: "Damien Gardner Jnr" <rendrag@rendrag.net>
Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] Mobile beaconing over Christmas break
To: "VK / ZL APRS Users" <ozaprs@aprs.net.au>
Well I don't know if it helps, but I'm doing Melbourne->Murringo (~80km
north of yass), Murringo->Canberra, Canberra->Wyong, Wyong->Port Mac,
Port Mac->Wyong between Chrissy and Newyear, then
Wyong->Wollongong->Bega->Melb the week after newyear.. Though it'll be
via the D7 so not a lot of power output (and especially the port mac
stretch, as that'll be totally handheld in the GF's car - not much
chance of talking her into taking the non-aircon'd 13L/100km sluglux
instead of her 5l/100km astra ;) )..
Cheers,
DG
-----Original Message-----
From: ozaprs-bounces@aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces@aprs.net.au] On
Behalf Of Geoff
Sent: Thursday, 13 December 2007 8:31 PM
To: 'VK / ZL APRS Users'
Subject: [OZAPRS] Mobile beaconing over Christmas break
*snip*
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:46:44 +1100
From: "Dave Walmsley" <dave@hunterlink.net.au>
Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] VK2ZEN
To: <ozaprs@aprs.net.au>
Thanks Geoff,
Like I said, been a while!
So, yes I can hear ZEN.. Now to get the old TinyTrack going..
Also, anyone got a KISS ROM for a Paccomm Micropower-2 to use at home here?
looking at running the Hamshack CD on an old PC.
Dave
> > Message: 5
> > Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:23:33 +1100
> > From: "Geoff" <geoff@gatwards.org>
> > Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] VK2ZEN
> > To: "'VK / ZL APRS Users'" <ozaprs@aprs.net.au>
> > Message-ID: <20071211112358.DC7E2A087A2@server2.gatwards.org>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> >
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > Its on the national APRS frequency, 145.175 :-)
> >
> > Mobile path to use is WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1
> > If you are a fixed station the path is WIDE2-2
> >
> > Regards,
> > Geoff VK2XJG
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ozaprs-bounces@aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces@aprs.net.au] On
> > Behalf Of Dave Walmsley
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 8:53 PM
> > To: Ozaprs@aprs.net.au
> > Subject: [OZAPRS] VK2ZEN
> >
> > Hi Michael and all.
> >
> > I've been out of APRS for a while, what frequency is VK2ZEN-1 on? I'll see
> > if I can hit it from Wallsend.
> >
> >
> > Dave
> > VK2XPX
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