[aprssig] Beacon too often

[david vanhorn]

"Required"??  By who?

On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 10:23 AM Tom <k8tb at bosscher.org> wrote:

> 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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