[aprssig] The new D710 and Smart Beaconing?

[Greg D.]

Possibly a better algorithm would be to have it beacon *less* frequently if 
it heard its own packet digipeated (to ease up on channel congestion), 
*unless* it hears very little traffic overall.  If the channel is lightly 
loaded, then increasing the frequency of the beacon will not hurt, and it is 
more likely that you are in a more remote area where it may take a few tries 
to get a packet through unscathed.

Just a thought.

Greg  KO6TH


----Original Message Follows----
From: Earl Needham via Kubuntu <needhame1 at plateautel.net>
Reply-To: TAPR APRS Mailing List <aprssig at lists.tapr.org>
To: TAPR APRS Mailing List <aprssig at lists.tapr.org>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] The new D710 and Smart Beaconing?
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 11:43:09 -0600

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".

7 3
Earl
KD5XB

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