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VK6RTH-3 appears to be off air. Last heard today 13:19:30 Perth time.

With the Tic Hill digipeter being off-air, APRS packets are taking some interesting paths

This morning, a packet from my work in the CBD went from Perth to 6KSB near Harvey, to 6RAW in Katanning and then to 6MT's gateway...

I heard 6RAW voice repeater ident a few times today. You won't impress me until you show me a path through VK5

Zebedee wrote:With the Tic Hill digipeter being off-air, APRS packets are taking some interesting paths

This morning, a packet from my work in the CBD went from Perth to 6KSB near Harvey, to 6RAW in Katanning and then to 6MT's gateway...

I saw some packets tonight from VK6HGR in the northern suburbs go via VK6WB -> VK6RLK -> VK6RAW -> VK6MT as well as via VK6KSB -> VK6RAW -> VK6MT. Now that is taking the long way! The path between VK6RLK and VK6RLK does appear to be quite frequent.

The APRS digipeater at Mt Barker should be operational in the next few weeks and I will be I-gating temporarily for a few weeks so it will be interesting to see how many packets go in via this route.

73's

VK6LD

VK6LD wrote:

Zebedee wrote:With the Tic Hill digipeter being off-air, APRS packets are taking some interesting paths

This morning, a packet from my work in the CBD went from Perth to 6KSB near Harvey, to 6RAW in Katanning and then to 6MT's gateway...

I saw some packets tonight from VK6HGR in the northern suburbs go via VK6WB -> VK6RLK -> VK6RAW -> VK6MT as well as via VK6KSB -> VK6RAW -> VK6MT. Now that is taking the long way! The path between VK6RLK and VK6RLK does appear to be quite frequent.

The APRS digipeater at Mt Barker should be operational in the next few weeks and I will be I-gating temporarily for a few weeks so it will be interesting to see how many packets go in via this route.

73's

VK6LD

VK6RAW digipeater heard a VK5 digipeater from Mt Gambier overnight. (2000+ kms)

Around lunchtime today I was up at Mt Barker Hill and from the car beaconed some packets through VK6KSB-3 to VK6HGR. (270km from me to VK6KSB-3)

73's

VK6LD

Nice! Mt Gambier is down the south east coast of SA.

Edit: VK5JFK posted about the same just a moment ago in OZAPRS

Gav just posted this one in OZAPRS (emphasis added by moi):

Fri Feb 19 02:34:48 2010
VK3RPG-2>TLM,VK5JFK-1,VK6RAW-3,WIDE2*:T#131,051,135,049,018,033,00000000,SA3VFC
Fri Feb 19 05:57:54 2010

Mind you the VK3-VK5 path is only a couple hundred kms

and another digipeater is on air VK6RAA-3 Mt Barker.

VK6RTH-3 is back on air.

Good to see a bit of APRS activity starting up in Bunbury.

VK6ZMS wrote:Good to see a bit of APRS activity starting up in Bunbury.

Yes good to see VK6KCH-3 digipeater on air from Bunbury and VK6ADF-9 driving around. The digipeater might need a bit of fine tuning to its settings, as does VK6RAA-3 which I'll get around to one day!

Maybe VK6ADF can tell us a bit more about the setup & future plans.

73's

VK6LD

I'm doing some experimenting with 6m APRS this weekend. 53.025MHz if anyone wants to have a go.

VK6LD wrote:

VK6ZMS wrote:Good to see a bit of APRS activity starting up in Bunbury.

Yes good to see VK6KCH-3 digipeater on air from Bunbury and VK6ADF-9 driving around.

I don't expect there will be too much activity from down around Bunbury. Does not really seem to be much activity of any description. I have dabbled with APRS on and off for a few years but only in as much as running UI-View and watching what was going on. Finally decided to do something about it.

I set my weather station to send data to CWOP a couple of months ago which is what shows up (actual location changed to protect the guilty but within a few hundred metres) on APRS.

When I got my MT-AIO during the week, I set UI-View to send received data on 145.175 to the net which is why VK6KCH-3 appears now. It has been going for a while it seems but invisible. My UI-View to the net is only running occassionally when I want to try something out and not going to be a long term thing.