<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On May 23, 2007, at 4:28 PM, Keith VE7GDH wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Bob WB4APR wrote...</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I have plenty of experience with it. Most any day,<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>most any</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">time. All I have to do in my APRS is hit the SORT by LOAD</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">button and see who is hitting out 99 beacons per hour (the max I</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">capture), and it invariably is people running smart beaconing.</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">You do? What device (hardware or softare) are you using that uses<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">SmartBeaconing? I'm pretty sure you have at least one D7 and at least one<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">D700, but they aren't capable of SmartBeaconing.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Perhaps these are the mobiles which blindly beacon every 30 seconds while parked? Perhaps we should condemn those unupgradeable Kenwoods for the state of the network?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'd much rather have my Smart Beaconing which drops my tx rate to once every 255 minutes when my speeds drops below 5km/h.</DIV><BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Geneva" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Geneva">--</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Geneva" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Geneva">Steve <steve.jones at rogers.com></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Geneva; min-height: 16.0px"><BR></P> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>