[aprssig] APRS in SouthEast Ireland

[John Ronan]

Hi There,

I've been experimenting with APRS in South East Ireland for just over 
12 months now (packet is pretty much dead around here), slowly getting 
people interested. I've tried out the TinyTrackIII, PocketTracker, 
Opentrac, and recently took the plunge and purchased a TM-D700 (very 
nice radio I must say.. need the DMF keypad though).

EI8JA and I wish to start building an APRS network infrastructure. We 
have access to a site (Mt Leinster) at 2600ft ASL and were going to 
start by putting a TNC with an alias of WIDE up there as it pretty much 
can see most of the South East of Ireland. I've been acting as an IGate 
for a good while now using xastir and have line of site to Mt Leinster.

Anyways my question is this, as this is pretty much a green field site, 
what traps should we try and avoid falling into?  I would like to 
benefit from your wisdom and experience folks!

I shall now return to digging in the archives.

Regards
de John
EI7IG


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John Ronan <jronan at tssg dot org>, +353-51-302938
Telecommunications Software &  Systems Group,  http://www.tssg.org