[aprssig] Just my 2 cents worth on smart beaconing

[Wes Johnston, AI4PX]

My point was that most people want to set their fast beacon speed too high
and never really get out of corner pegging mode.
Wes
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On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 19:05, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:

> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 03:14:38PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the <wes at ai4px.com> flavor, containing:
> > .  The "fast beacon" rate is the point at which your tracker goes
> > from "transmit on a turn" mode to "beacon every xx miles" mode.
>
>
> No, the fast speed is where your tracker starts beaconing at the fast rate,
> i.e. a purely timed beacon at higher rate.  Only between slow and fast
> speeds
> does SmartBeaconing work in "beacon every xx miles" modulo corner pegging,
> and
> then only by scaling the fast beacon rate by the ratio between "fast speed"
> and
> your current speed.  Above fast speed, corner pegging is disabled and
> everything's just timed at a fixed rate.
>
> Look again at the algorithm on http://www.hamhud.net/hh2/smartbeacon.html,
> it
> doesn't jibe with some of what you've said here.
>
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