[aprssig] APRS coverage in France

[John Ronan]

My Parents drove down through France not so long ago. I had an  
opentracker on a radio running 25 watts.   Coverage seemed quite good  
until they got down towards the Massif Central.  They were beaconing  
every 3 minutes.. or so.

Regards
de John
EI7IG

On 2 May 2006, at 19:46, Jan T. Pharo wrote:

> Bruce Coates <bruce.coates at sasktel.net>, Tue, 02 May 2006 11:54:01
> -0600:
>
>> A friend of mine is planning on riding the Paris-Brest-Paris bike  
>> ride in 2007 and would like to run an APRS tracker on his bike.   
>> Can anyone give me some information regarding:
>>
>> What frequency is used in France
> 144.800
>
> Other questions: try to set your filter to include France
> (e.g. r/47/002/500 in your filter for a tier2 APRS server) and look at
> the details for some stations. Interval for moving stations - well,
> like at home; every 1 to 3 minutes should be enough - but maybe there
> are more bikers with APRS, so the frequency might get crowded; hope a
> french ham will complete this!
>
> -- 
> 73 de Jan, LA2BBA
> Hvaler, Norway
>
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