[aprssig] HF APRS igates on fldigi

[Joe Della Barba]

Would it be better to use another band? Either way this is exciting :) 
The JS8 grid thing works, but you miss a lot of the APRS functions.

I am going to see if I can get YAAC going tonight or tomorrow.

Joe N3HGB

On 5/9/2020 4:30 PM, spam8mybrain via aprssig wrote:
> Drat. I wished I'd seen this email 5 hours earlier. I would have 
> delayed the build of YAAC I just put out so I could include a 
> manual-only beacon mode. Oh, well, next build...
>
> Andrew, KA2DDO
> author of YAAC
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: "Stephen H. Smith via aprssig" <aprssig at lists.tapr.org>
> Date: 5/9/20 14:03 (GMT-05:00)
> To: Robert Bruninga <bruninga at usna.edu>, TAPR APRS Mailing List 
> <aprssig at lists.tapr.org>
> Subject: Re: [aprssig] HF APRS igates on fldigi
>
> On 5/9/2020 11:14 AM, Robert Bruninga wrote:
> > On HF, and using the decaying algorithm, I'd start at 1m, 2m, 4m, 8m 
> and then
> > stay at 16 minutes.
>
> Maybe this would work on other HF bands, BUT NOT ON 60M !!!
>
> We CANNOT legally have any kind of automated "untouched-by-human-hands"
> spontaneous transmission on 60 meters.
>
> The 60-meters "channels" (we are assigned only 5 single spot 
> frequencies; not a
> band with lower and upper frequency limits) are shared with federal 
> users like
> DOD and FEMA, with hams as secondary users.
>      We are obligated to monitor before transmitting and immediately 
> yield to
> federal users, should they activate a channel. Ham BBSes and 
> mail-box-type
> automated systems are already explicitly prohibited on 60m.
>
> Any APRS activity on 60M MUST be by single beacon-on-demand.
>
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