Seeing as I visited Knoxville, TN several times, I've made the following observations:<br><br>1. The Cove Mountain digi should be the only Wn-N<br>2. Everyone in the valley should be fill-ins.<br><br>I've been able to hit Cove Mountain from Lenoir City to Bean station on an HT. Also it reaches London, KY in a single hop, and probably other digis in other directions of a similar distance.
<br><br>This is my opinion only. I don't live in the area so things may have changed drastically since I've been there.<br><br>73 de Pat --- KA9SCF.<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/19/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
William McKeehan</b> <<a href="mailto:mckeehan@mckeehan.homeip.net">mckeehan@mckeehan.homeip.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;">
Over the past couple of years, APRS activity in my area has grown<br>dramatically. As more stations come on the air, the operators are tempted to<br>setup digi's and IGates.<br><br>I don't think most of them really understand most APRS fundamentals. You'll
<br>hear them say things like "Isn't that great, I can see stations from 600 miles<br>away" and you will see paths like:<br> RELAY,WIDE3-3<br> RELAY,WIDE,WIDE2-2 (this is on several stations - one "expert" sharing
<br>his knowledge to others)<br><br>In an area approximately 60x60 miles, we have about 11 digi's and IGates (some<br>stations are both, some only one or the other). Two of these digi's are high<br>level digi's, one is nearly 3000 HAAT. Some guys are talking about putting up
<br>yet another digi right in the center of this area (<1000 ASL, so basically 0<br>HAAT in this area).<br><br>I know that we are not in a good position now and adding more digi's is a bad<br>idea, but I do not know how to convey this to some of these users. I want to
<br>discourage any new digi's in the area and suggest that some turn off their<br>digi's/IGates.<br><br>Are there any guidelines (beyond common sense) to setting up digi's published<br>anywhere on the web that I could point people to as something to back me up?
<br>or am I wrong and more digi's are OK?<br><br>Looking for the right words to guide people in the right direction.<br>--<br>William McKeehan<br>KI4HDU<br>Internet: <a href="mailto:mckeehan@mckeehan.homeip.net">mckeehan@mckeehan.homeip.net
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