[aprssig] The new D710 and Smart Beaconing?

[Brian B. Riley]

My Kenwood has as program 1 with a status of "on duty" and beaconing  
every 3 minutes, In program 2 are identical settings except the  
status is "off duty" and the beacon rate is 30 minutes. When I pull   
up and park someplace I hit the Program button and select 2. We own 3  
D700's all three have me in program slots 1 and 2 and   my wife is in  
program 5 on the road and program 4 parked, all under her callsign.  
Program 3 is mycallsign with digipeater enabled.  More or less idiot  
proof and network friendly!



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On May 23, 2007, at 9:38 PM, Jason Rausch wrote:

> I have just spent the last hour reading through or
> should I say wading through the montage of emails that
> have been posted today over SmartBeaconing.  Some
> people are right on the mark and some are about as
> ignorant and humanly possible on the subject.
>
> The whole time, while reading this a single example
> kept comming to mind.  Take two mobiles parked at work
> for 8 hours.  One is running a Kenwood beaconing once
> every three minutes.  The other is running
> SmartBeaconing with a slow rate of <5 MPH and beconing
> once every 30 minutes.  The Kenwood ends up sending
> 160 packets in that eight hour period, while the
> SmartBeaconing device sent 16.  Now tell me who is
> loading down the channel!
>
> So this raises some questions.  First, why the hell
> would you have to beacon the SAME location 160 times
> in eight hours?  How can you justify this?  Is it now
> clearer how a PROPERLY setup SmartBeaconing device can
> severly reduce channel QRM?  Lastly, why do the
> Kenwoods get a pass?
>
> Jason KE4NYV
>
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