[aprssig] Smart beaconing and the tragedy of the commons

[Earl Needham]

At 02:05 PM 5/25/2007, Keith VE7GDH wrote:
>I'm not looking for an arguement. I'm just observing that in the real world,
>determining if a station is using SmartBeaconing or not isn't always
>obvious. Admittedly, if the SmartBeaconinng station is very close to me to
>the point of capturing my receiver over all other beacons heard and thus no
>missed position reports, the corner pegging would make it more apparent.
>
>Bottom line... I think that most people would agree that SmartBeaconing is a
>good thing. Like anything else, it needs to be configured properly. A mis-
>configured device is a mis-configured device.

         I agree -- SmartBeaconing is WONDERUFL (as are spell 
checkers, HI!).  My example was a little over the top.

         The obvious way to tell if a station is using SmartBeaconing 
is to watch when they're on a straight and see if the distance 
between posits remains the same, regardless of the speed of the vehicle.

         7 3
         Earl

KD5XB -- Earl Needham
Clovis, New Mexico DM84jk
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