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I know the change is mostly a semantic one, but I thought it was important to make it a negative thing - that it'd drop beacons rather than adding them. The user can't blame the device for adding more frequent beacons than requested; the rate you specify is still the maximum rate.<br><br>Scott<br>N1VG<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;"><hr><b>From:</b> Earl Needham via Kubuntu [mailto:needhame1@plateautel.net]<br><b>To:</b> TAPR APRS Mailing List [mailto:aprssig@lists.tapr.org]<br><b>Sent:</b> Wed, 23 May 2007 10:43:09 -0700<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [aprssig] The new D710 and Smart Beaconing?<br><br><!-- -->On Wednesday 23 May 2007 11:25:56 <a href="mailto:scott@opentrac.org">scott@opentrac.org</a> wrote:<br>> The Tracker2 has a new feature I'd like to see more widely implemented -<br>> you can set it so that if it hears its own packet digipeated, it'll skip<br>> the next n transmissions. This means you can set a fairly high beacon rate<br>> to get a better success rate out in the middle of nowhere, but when you get<br>> into an area with better coverage it automatically cuts back on beacons.<br><br> The HamHUD had a similar feature some years ago. If it did NOT hear it's own <br>packet repeated, it would send it again. I believe it would send a total of <br>three of these before it gave up. I believe this feature was finally deleted <br>due to complaints of "over-beaconing".<br><br>7 3<br>Earl<br>KD5XB<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>aprssig mailing list<br><a href="mailto:aprssig@lists.tapr.org">aprssig@lists.tapr.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig" target="_blank">https://lists.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig</a><br><!-- --><style>
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