[aprssig] Beacon too often

[Tom]

Sometimes education works, but not always.
We had a guy in our area who had a quasi-encomm vehicle, with not one, 
but two APRS units aboard. He set each one to beacon every 10 seconds, 
using 4 digi's! 144.39 never stopped. We talked to him, and he stated 
that this was required. So those of us running the APRS digi's went to 
each site and blacklisted him him from digi peating. He still was 
putting out too much RF too often. He blew a cork. We could not care, as 
the network was hosed. After 2 weeks, he backed down to one every 
5minutes. Oh, he was doing this 24/7, even when the truck was parked.

Tom K8TB

p.s. A base station never really needs to beacon. Really, the joy of 
APRS is that the sending units auto-majically finds the digi's. We have 
APRS digi from one state over insisting to digipeat through us in West 
Michigan. A mobile should be at the fastest evey 60 seconds, with smart 
digi'ing on. We have set base station to beacon once every 30 minutes, 
with just one digipeat.




On 1/18/2022 6:04 PM, John Denison wrote:
> There is a ham in my area that beacons on APRS 144.390 every 15 
> seconds while mobile, and to me that seems rather excessive. It also 
> makes it harder for other stations to use the frequency as we are in 
> an area where 144.39 is very busy. I have mine set to every 10 minutes 
> with smart beaconing on and it seems to work pretty well. What is an 
> appropriate beacon rate? Thanks
>
> 73
> John Denison
> KD5YOU
>
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