[aprssig] Interesting APRS RF Behavior at Dayton....

[Stephen H. Smith]

I currently have my special events UI-Webserver (normally used for balloon 
launches) displaying all the RF activity within 6 miles of the Dayton 
Hamvention.    See it at:

      <http://wa8lmf.net/map>    Click on the "Special Events" server link.

Note that I am filtering for a radius of 6 miles around the venue, while the 
range scale of the map display is only 1 mile; i.e. the immediate vicinity of 
the event.   Click the list of "All Stations Heard" below the map to see 
stations at numerous motels in the area as well as actually at the Hara Arena. 
Sixty-plus stations are currently being heard within 6 miles of Hara.....

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Looking locally at the details in the "Stations Heard" list, I am noticing a 
somewhat odd behavior.    There are two stations on-site at the Hara Arena 
(venue of the Hamvention)serving as igates:   W8FSM-11 and ON6WFO-10 .  W8FSM 
is also acting as a digipeater (god only knows why in this temporary patch of 
TOTAL RF SATURATION).

However the vast majority of stations in the area are being igated by either 
W8GUC (about 5.5 mi / 8.8 km north-east)  or W8VFR-1(about 20 mi / 32 km 
southwest) of the arena.    Are the on-site igates so totally overloaded by the 
2-meter RF onslaught that they aren't hearing anything?



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