[aprssig] polling d700

[Brian B. Riley]

Nothing to setup ...

Just send an email to the d700 containing "?APRS?" and it will respond with
a posit as will a D7. I do that to my truck when I go hiking hitting it with
my D7 and it sure saves on the truck battery!


On 1/11/05 10:45 AM, "Wes Johnston" <aprs at kd4rdb.com> wrote:

> I asked a question on the sig the other day, not sure if it made it to the sig
> though...
> 
> Does the kenwood d700 respond to polls?  Can I set my d700 to, say a 30 minute
> beacon interval and just have someone poll it when they want to know where I
> am?
> 
> If this were done at the digipeater level (ie the digi sends a direct packet),
> then the digi could poll all the d700's individually as fast as the network
> congestion would allow.  If the network got busy, the digi would have the
> sense
> enough to slow the polling interval.  (my idea of a fictional digipeater)
> 
> Wes
> 
> 
> 
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