[aprssig] The new D710 and Smart Beaconing?

[scott at opentrac.org]

I know the change is mostly a semantic one, but I thought it was important to make it a negative thing - that it'd drop beacons rather than adding them.  The user can't blame the device for adding more frequent beacons than requested; the rate you specify is still the maximum rate.

Scott
N1VG
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From: Earl Needham via Kubuntu [mailto:needhame1 at plateautel.net]
To: TAPR APRS Mailing List [mailto:aprssig at lists.tapr.org]
Sent: Wed, 23 May 2007 10:43:09 -0700
Subject: Re: [aprssig] The new D710 and Smart Beaconing?

On Wednesday 23 May 2007 11:25:56 scott at opentrac.org wrote:
> The Tracker2 has a new feature I'd like to see more widely implemented -
> you can set it so that if it hears its own packet digipeated, it'll skip
> the next n transmissions.  This means you can set a fairly high beacon rate
> to get a better success rate out in the middle of nowhere, but when you get
> into an area with better coverage it automatically cuts back on beacons.

 The HamHUD had a similar feature some years ago.  If it did NOT hear it's own 
packet repeated, it would send it again.  I believe it would send a total of 
three of these before it gave up.  I believe this feature was finally deleted 
due to complaints of "over-beaconing".

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Earl
KD5XB

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