[aprssig] HF APRS igates on fldigi

[Joe Bennett]

I'm all for moving off of 60 Meters. Look, it's a great band and I'm set up there right now. The lack of automatic control makes it undesirable for a lot of the core functions of APRS. 40 or 30 meters would seem to be a better alternative.. 


-- Joe 
KA3NAM

May 9, 2020, 5:08 PM by joe at dellabarba.com:

>
> 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> <mailto:aprssig at lists.tapr.org>>>  
>>  Date: 5/9/20 14:03 (GMT-05:00) 
>>  To: Robert Bruninga >> <bruninga at usna.edu> <mailto:bruninga at usna.edu>>> , TAPR APRS Mailing      List >> <aprssig at lists.tapr.org> <mailto: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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