Ron, I missed what's going on. Whats the event and when and where?
Thanks


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Hi Bob and All,

How many APRS mobiles will be on the air at the event?

What rate will they TX,

Probably two mobiles, deaf trackers in the SAG's. Two minute beacon rate

and time slotted just to be sure. At this point, it looks like Byonic's

MT-AIO's. since we have those in stock. One "porta-digi", might not have

that beacon at all, just digi to fill in the valleys out on the far end

where I expect a hole. I have yet to run the course and check signals

though. I also plan to run my digi/ I-gate here at the home QTH. The

course goes within a mile of here. And of course the full featured APRS

station at NCS, right in the center of all the fun.

Who is watching?

Probably just race officials, Law enforcement or who ever sticks a nose

into the comms trailer. The whole world can watch, of course, but I doubt

much of the world outside the few folks directly connected will give much

of a hoot.



There's a big planning meeting the day after tomorrow with all the

players. I'll have a lot more information after that.

73, Ron (KC8SFQ)

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bob

On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 9:20 PM, kc8sfq@... [aprsisce] <

aprsisce@...> wrote:

Hi Guys 'n' Gals,

I have two digi/I-gates up and running. One at the EOC (BRYEOC) running

24-7 unless the computer does an update or the IT department resets the

router. When that happens, the computer I-gate quits, but the digi is

set

to restart it's self. The one here at home is a bit more sporadic as I

work

on it. But all that is just FYI, not the basis for my question. Here

at home, I see this in the scroller: BRYEOC* 2/3 K0TEA-2*. Or perhaps

something like N8TJG-10*1/2 2M Net*2 (another local digi and

my

object for our Thurs evening net)

BRYEOC is our digi/ I-gate at the EOC; * means it was heard by RF;

K0TEA-2* is the station, also RF, that we digi'd

I also understand that the number after the * is the number of times
that

a station was heard very recently. The part I have not seen before is
the

fraction (2/3 above and it's always attached to the digi). I suspect it

also has to do with times heard. The station here at home is the only

place

I see the fraction. The setup at EOC is almost identical to this one

and

I

don't see the fraction there.

We are getting ready for our biggest rollout of APRS yet. And in fact,
it

is the largest thing we've ever supported, with with any mode and this
is

the first time for us to do this race. It's a bicycle race with 3000+-

riders on a 60 mile course in our hilly county. We have the digi at EOC

and

I'll move that up to the 200 foot antenna for the race. I also

anticipate

at least one outlying "porta-digi" and at least 2 SAG's. The race is
only

7 weeks out and that time will vaporize.

OK, enough rambling from me

Thanks and 73 KC8SFQ (Ron)