[aprssig] Southeast Oklahoma APRS

[Joseph M. Durnal]

As expected, there was a lot more activity near Oklahoma City.
Although I didn't see a repeater object.  I checked out aprs.fi, and
there is a repeater object on the map just south of town, but it seems
to be being beaconed by a digipeater well to the south of town (a good
40 or 50 miles south of the repeater), and while the repeater is
likely usable from the Oklahoma City area, I didn't hear packets from
that digi at all.

I was happy to hear someone calling on 146.52.  When the station he
was calling didn't answer, I gave him a call and had a great QSO.

73 de Joseph Durnal NE3R

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Robert Bruninga <bruninga at usna.edu> wrote:
>> I'm in Ada, Oklahoma, not very much APRS out here.
>> I have the TM-D700... I've seen a few mobiles
>> within 50 miles...
>
> Well keep your rate up at 1 minute and 2 hops and monitor voice
> alert.  In very sparse areas, the maintenance of a 1 minute rate
> with voice alert improves your probability of detecting someone
> else in the great expanse of wilderness...  Even it you are not
> hitting any digis...
>
> Oh, and that is the advantage of proportional pathing in the
> D710...
>
> It maintains a 1 minute rate, but only every other packet goes
> via 1 hop and only every forth packet goes via 2.  So for
> voice-alert proximity detection, you still have a 1 minute local
> rate, but your immediate local digi only sees a 2 min rate, and
> the 2 hop area only sees a 4 minute rate...
>
>
> Bob
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