[aprssig] Mobile non-RF beacon rate?

[Gerhard]

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Robert Bruninga <bruninga at usna.edu> wrote:

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> Given an average commute of an hour, and APRS users spread out
> over maybe 10 time zones and half of them just WX stations or
> DIGIS, then that's about 2000 per minute?  Just guessing here..

That's a good guess, Bob.

My server T2FRANCE has to process more than 30 packets per second
with a five min average:
http://monitor.nh6z.net/mrtg/cgi-bin/mrtg-rrd.cgi/france/france_packets.html

As far as connections to the server are concerned, more than 80% last
for less than one minute, i.e. mainly WX beacons dump:
http://f5vag.eu/db/JavServUser.php

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73 de Gerhard, F5VAG / DL7MW
http://f5vag.eu , france.aprs2.net