<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/24/06, <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;">
I happen to agree with you - except for the small point that the cove mountain<br>digi does not support WIDEn-N. A new digi is expected to go up in the same (or<br>nearly the same) location soon (it was up for testing this weekend, but had
<br>some non-APRS related issues and was removed for further work). This new digi<br>will respond to WIDEn-N.</blockquote><div><br>I knew that he wasn't updated yet and this I thought was a seperate issue to the case in point?
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">There is also a new WIDEn-N digi North of Knoxville, in North Anderson County<br>
(W4ACA) that provides coverage to the North where the cove mountain digi was<br>dropping off. This digi provides a good link up into KY from the Knoxville<br>area. I'm in favor of this digi remaining in place and acting as a WIDEn-N
<br>digi.</blockquote><div><br>Actually, if WA4KJH-7 actually supported Wn-N, you would see the KF4OWQ-2 London, KY digi, because when in the Cumberland gap, I could hear both fine and I could bounce via both of them when using a capatible path (WIDE1-1,TN on the London side, and TN,WIDE2-1 on the TN side). It's good to hear about the new sites.
<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">You say that "everyone" should be fill-ins...do you think that all stations
<br>should be fill-ins or just as necessary? These are the ones that I would like<br>to see reduced in number.</blockquote><div><br><br>This depends on what the network is trying to do. If you design it to cover 50 watt mobiles, there are too many in the area, but it you are designing it for HT style coverage you would want more. That's why I was interested in the receiver site digi project so when a 50 watt mobile rolls through an HT coverage area, they get one W1 hop rather than 3 or 4 of them. My work on this area is stalled because APRSD just won't stop crashing in this configuration.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Thu, October 19, 2006 9:19 pm, Patrick Green wrote:<br>> Seeing as I visited Knoxville, TN several times, I've made the following
<br>> 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
<br>> HT. Also it reaches London, KY in a single hop, and probably other digis in<br>> other directions of a similar distance.<br>><br>> This is my opinion only. I don't live in the area so things may have<br>
> changed drastically since I've been there.<br>><br>> 73 de Pat --- KA9SCF.</blockquote><div><br>73 de Pat --- KA9SCF. <br></div><br></div>