<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/12/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Joel Maslak</b> <<a href="mailto:jmaslak-aprs@antelope.net">jmaslak-aprs@antelope.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Oct 12, 2006, at 5:15 PM, Robert Bruninga wrote:<br><br>> My recommendation is to set ALL digis to 150 ms. That is TXD =<br>> 15.<br><br>I think that is too long. I think 100 ms is plenty if your TX radio<br>will do it.
</blockquote><div><br>I've set my digi to 22 (220ms) and that's about the limit for the 1270C and IC-2200H combo I have. If I set it shorter, if I hear back to back transmissions on my D7A, I will miss the transmission. I use 200ms on my D7A with no trouble most anywhere.
<br><br>I agree that TXD is the biggest waste of bandwidth in APRS transmissions but it's hard to set a value that everyone can agree on. It should be a regional setting. Some digi's have radios that take awhile to sync up and others have radios that can't use open squelch and true DCD...
<br><br><br>73 de Pat --- KA9SCF.<br></div></div>