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</head><BODY BGCOLOR="#F8F8F8" ><div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">Richard, is it feasible to use different SSIDs for the WX packet and repeater beacon?<br />--</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">J. Gary Bender, WS5N</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;">Fence Lake, New Mexico USA</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;"><br /><br />On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:04:57 -0400, Richard Sharp, KQ4KX wrote:<br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> Something I discovered with a digi/weather station setup is that for the</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> weather data to be decoded by client software or findu.com etc. it must</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> have the weather icon. I've been letting the digi send its icon every ten</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> minutes and the weather station sends a weather icon with its transmission.</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> The only problem I see is if the digi is the latest transmission the client</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> software won't show -any- weather data for that station until the next</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> weather payload transmission.</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> I think I'm going to integrate the digi parameters (PHG, W3, etc.) into the</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> payload of the weather transmission with an 'S' overlay digi icon. It</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> makes for a bit longer packet but at least everything will be there.</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">> Richard</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;">></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:10pt;"><br /></SPAN></div>
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