[aprssig] WX station transmit rate?

[Richard Amirault]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Bruninga"
Subject: Re: [aprssig] WX station transmit rate?
(snip)
> I say, the benefit of halving the load 24/7 outweighs the
> benefit of hearing a few WX packets on the rare occasion
> of a RELAY digi going down.
(snip)

"...on the rare occasion of a RELAY digi going down."    I'm sorry, that 
does not make sense to me.  In my experience, local (fixed) stations come 
and go. Some last a long time (weeks/months/years), some not so long 
(days/weeks).

Many are not 24/7 but only on the air for a few hours a day, and maybe not 
even every day at that.  If you choose one of those stations as your first 
hop by callsign then you will not make it into the local WIDE (assuming you 
can't hit it direct) consistantly.

Richard Amirault                                N1JDU                Boston, 
MA, USA
www.erols.com/ramirault          "Go Fly A Kite"