[aprssig] The new D710 and Smart Beaconing?

[Wes Johnston, AI4PX]

I set mine highspeed to 45mph.  My line of thinking is that if I'm
travelling at a hi rate of speed, I'm probably on a long straight stretch of
road and can get away with beacons every xx miles.  If below 45mph, I get
corner pegging... if parked, the slow rate.  If you set the high speed to an
unreasonable unattainable high speed, then the corner pegging causes
transmissions on long slow curves in the interstates.  One such road here in
my area has a slow S turn that is 3/4 mile end to end.  It'll cause a
transmission entering and exiting the curves.

On another subject...One of my gripes about smart beaconing the whole time
has been that there is no tx upon entering the "slow rate".  Picture this...
I'm driving 60mph down the highway and have a flat tire.  I pull over and
stop.  the tracker enters slow beacon mode and it takes 30minutes for the
tracker to TX my position.  Anyone running dead reconing thinks I'm 30 miles
down the road.

Wes


On 5/23/07, Curt, WE7U <archer at eskimo.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Curt, WE7U.   APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
> "Lotto:    A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown
> "Windows:  Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U
> "The world DOES revolve around me:  I picked the coordinate system!"
>
> _______________________________________________
> aprssig mailing list
> aprssig at lists.tapr.org
> https://lists.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig
>
>


-- 
In theory there is no difference between practice and theory.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.tapr.org/pipermail/aprssig_lists.tapr.org/attachments/20070523/6834375e/attachment.html>