[aprssig] IS-to-RF alternate proposal - 'marked beacons'

[Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)]

YMMV but my Range 25 miles, -IS stations, maybe 15 (excluding CWOP) @ 
1/30 minutes.  -IS mobile stations, maybe 8 (max) @ 1/10 minutes, total 
-IS to RF IGating load: 40 every 30 minutes.  Current RF reception rate: 
5/minute up to 12/minute depending on propagation.

I personally have no plans to configure any -IS to RF gating parameters 
that would give a "good accumulated path" presentation over RF like the 
-IS users have come to desire/expect.  Just making their presence known 
is sufficient IMHO.

Other areas will have other loads and some areas may choose to gate NO 
stations from -IS to RF.  It's all dependent on the area's RF landscape 
and the desire of the IGate operator.

Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32

On 12/29/2011 9:29 PM, Lee Bengston wrote:
> Hmm, everyone who either doesn't care or has no clue gets gated to RF
> in addition to those that want to.  Of course, a certain percentage of
> the clueless would probably want to but not know it.  I don't know -
> 1200 baud...
>
> Lee - K5DAT
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)
> <ldeffenb at homeside.to>  wrote:
>> Why not the same defaults as supported in the reverse direction?  If you
>> don't want your RF packets to go to -IS, then you put NOGATE or RFONLY in
>> your path.
>>
>> By extension, if you DON'T want your -IS packets to go to RF, you put
>> something in your comment, say maybe "NORF" as a blank-delimited word or at
>> the end of the beacon comment?  IMHO, there are far fewer -IS users who
>> would NOT want to be gated that those that DO want to be gated, so why
>> clutter the majority of the comments ON RF NO LESS (where bandwidth is most
>> limited and packet contents are NOT allowed to be changed by IGates) with
>> additional characters?
>>
>> Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32
>>
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