APRS - part two

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Re: APRS - part two

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Many thanks to all the parties involved with the rollout of APRS infrastructure throughout W.A.

It is certainly growing in popularity and is a great fun way of communicating!

The Brand Hwy 'link' sounds very exciting and will prove an excellent resource for travellers and locals...

73's, Duncan - VK6GHZ
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Re: APRS - part two

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Agreed! It's nice to see the infrastructure being upgraded and improved, and plans on the way to fill in the gaps between Perth and Geraldton...
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Re: APRS - part two

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Great news about the northern link.
Pinjarra going off air has left a huge hole from Rockingham to Bunbury
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Re: APRS - part two

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VK6ZMS wrote: Pinjarra going off air has left a huge hole from Rockingham to Bunbury
Anybody know what happened to it?
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Re: APRS - part two

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VK6ZMS wrote: Pinjarra going off air has left a huge hole from Rockingham to Bunbury
Anybody know what happened to it?
I was going to email Chris VK6KCH about the VK6KCH-3 digipeater in Bunbury to ask if it could be configured to digipeat as it appears not to at the moment. So a couple of days ago I obtained an email address which will suposedly get to him eventually. Doing some checking I found that VK6KSB-3 is registered to the same address. So tonight I emailed Chris asking about VK6KSB-3 digi as well as VK6KCH-3.

Will see if I get a reply.
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Re: APRS - part two

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From what I can tell, KCH doesn't have a suitable path set up. It only seems to appear on aprs.fi when it hits an igate directly. The one and only time I heard it here directly it had no path either. That might be by choice.
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Re: APRS - part two

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Spoke to Duncan VK6GHZ recently about APRS via ISS.

He sent me this screen capture taken a few weeks ago.
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Re: APRS - part two

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Does anyone have a difinitive answer as to why VK6KSB-3 in Pinjarra went off the air 20 days ago ???
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Re: APRS - part two

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Update: I received a reply from VK6KCH. He does not know why VK6KSB-3 went off air. He has never been to the site. Apparently the antenna there was 4 phased dipoles and it was a location with excellent coverage. Will certainly be a great pity if its gone for good.

As for the digipeater in Bunbury, it was placed at its location in a hurry to stake a claim on the location. It is apparently operating on a UHF antenna so good performance from it cannot be expected and probably a good reason to not have it digipeat and only beacon occassionally.

I gave Chris a link to this thread so maybe he will have a read at whats been happening.

So after that, I still don't know why VK6KSB-3 went offline. Must be a south of the river thing as I notice VK6USB-3 in Baldivus has not been displaying on aprs.fi for 4 or 5 days now as well.
VK6TNC wrote:Does anyone have a difinitive answer as to why VK6KSB-3 in Pinjarra went off the air 20 days ago ???
the answer would be no, not at he moment. He did say he was composing a longer reply to me and maybe that will shed more information.
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Re: APRS - part two

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VK6TNC wrote:Does anyone have a difinitive answer as to why VK6KSB-3 in Pinjarra went off the air 20 days ago ???
Rumour has it that the site has been lost :cry: The site also contained equipment for another service but that has also been removed.
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Re: APRS - part two

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We've started a VK6-specific APRS forum at http://vk6aprs.createaforum.com. Please read the message there before signing up.
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Re: APRS - part two

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Ducting results for 01DEC10 AM: (info ex here: http://www.db0anf.de/app/aprs/stations/ ... s-VK6RTH-3)

VK6GHZ-8 OG72HV>OF88AE 543.0 km 165 / SSE 35 2010-11-28 23:31:54 2010-11-30 21:41

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Re: APRS - part two

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With Martin's assistance we sorted out the issues with HARG's digipeater VK6AHR-3 and we now have weather via APRS (real RF stuff, none of this radioless nonsense ;-)) Humidity is invalid data at the moment until I get hold of the device for the station.
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Re: APRS - part two

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Duncan VK6GHZ APRS via ISS overhead in the Gascoyne.

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Re: APRS - part two

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More ISS action again today:

2010-12-04 06:43:57 UTC: VK6GHZ-6>RT51V9,RS0ISS-4*,qAR,YC9ZAH

VK6GHZ-6 via the ISS and gated in Indonesia...
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