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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=TSchall@kcts.org href="mailto:TSchall@kcts.org">Schall, Tim</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=nwaprssig@nwaprs.org
href="mailto:nwaprssig@nwaprs.org">nwaprssig@nwaprs.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, April 11, 2005 9:47 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> The final word on Shizzle</DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The people in the NWAPRS group
already know about this but since it’s also going to end up on the national sig
I’ll explain just a bit.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">With all the talk about paths and
such I thought it would be interesting to stress test our network a little
bit. I set up an automated beacon from the SEA digi site to run once a
minute during the </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">3AM</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> hour. There is
software up there that counts all the packets and ranks users by number of
packets heard and some other parameters. It generates a new page once an
hour. For our local stuff heard on RF at the digi site take a look at
http://packet.fortgirlfriend.com/usage.html This count includes all
packets generated plus dupes. In other words, if I sent one packet and
hear six different digi’s resend it I get a count of seven.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The packets were all sent from the
same transmitter that operates the SEA digi and counted by the same
receiver. I tried five different paths. Here’s how it all broke
down:</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">WIDE2-2
172 PACKETS</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">RELAY,WIDE2-1
217 PACKETS</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1
116 PACKETS</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">RELAY,WIDE2-2
242 PACKETS</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">WIDE1-1,WIDE2-2
121 PACKETS</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Clearly, preemptive digipeating and
WIDE1-1 in the first slot help. A lot. Don’t know what we’ll do with
this data but WHOOP! There it is!</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Tim Schall</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">KA7PBI</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P></DIV>
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<P></P>No virus found in this incoming message.<BR>Checked by AVG
Anti-Virus.<BR>Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.6 - Release Date:
4/11/2005<BR></BODY></HTML>