[aprssig] The new D710 and Smart Beaconing?

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 23 May 2007, Rory Burke wrote:

> It's just a matter of deciding HOW
> FAR APART IN DISTANCE the you want to beacon and setting the High
> Beacon Rate accordingly. So if you want your beacons to come every 3
> miles you'd set your High Beacon Rate to 120 seconds. Pretty simple...

Exactly how I decided to think about mine, plus I set my OpenTracker
to switch to the other configuration below a certain speed, which
takes it to fixed-period beaconing every 7 minutes or so, with a
different symbol.  My APO switch takes over sometime after I'm
parked and shuts the whole system down.

We could come up with a simpler configuration scheme for
SmartBeaconing with something like these parameters:

Mandatory:

  Beacon every XX miles
  Corner Pegging On/Off


Optional:

  Timed beacons above/below YY speed
  Timed beacons every ZZ minutes
  Different symbol when using timed beacons


For this simpler configuration, set the other SmartBeaconing
parameters to default & usable values.

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