[CRAPRS] Not getting very many updates

[Ron Tonneson]

Gary, NQ0V and I have had a discussion recently about the health of W0CXX-5.  There are a number 
of possibilities.  The antenna and coax have been up for MANY years.  My guess would be in the 
range of 20 or more.  They were installed early in the life of the 112 shack and were used for 
years on 145.05 for the packet BBS.  Another possibility is the radio/TNC and a third is some 
interference from within the plant.

I am looking at the fundu raw data for NQ0V-2, K0QVF-9 and KC0SKM-1.  Here is what I see:

Digipeater	K0QVF	K0QVF-2	W0CXX-5	NQ0V-9
NQ0V-2		12	34	20	1
K0QVF-9		26	20	8	0
KC0SKM-1	0	0	11	0

K0QVF is my home station in Fairfax, K0QVF-2 is the fill-in digi on the SW side of CR, W0CXX-5 
is in the 112 station at Collins and NQ0V-9 is on the north side of Marion.

The numbers above are those that made it into findu, there were probably more picked up by each 
digi but were duplicates in findu so not shown.

Gregg, how much power are you running?  K0QVF is 25 watts to a 1/4 wave on the trunk lip.

Not sure of the NQ0V route, the K0QVF route was from Fairfax on 151 to Edgewood road to 
Blairsferry road to Council St and then back to Fairfax by the same route.  K0QVF-9 is using 
MIC-E and SmartBeaconing so when it is mauvering it will send an update quite often.

Conclusions: don't know.  I think it would be a good idea to just ate a look that the 
antenna/feedline at W0CXX-5 with a wattmeter.

Ron - K0QVF

grlind at rockwellcollins.com wrote:
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> I have my Tiny Trak to report every 5 minutes but it does not seem to 
> get to the repeaters..
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> I noticed that someone is transmitting at some higher rate since I 
> noticed on my handheld.
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> Would my ability to hit the APRS be affected by people transmitting at 
> higher rates? Is there a method to check who is sending data and at what 
> rates?
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> Gregg Lind
> KC0SKM-1
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