My point was that most people want to set their fast beacon speed too high and never really get out of corner pegging mode.<br clear="all">Wes
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 19:05, Tom Russo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:russo@bogodyn.org">russo@bogodyn.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 03:14:38PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <<a href="mailto:wes@ai4px.com">wes@ai4px.com</a>> flavor, containing:<br>
<div class="im">> . The "fast beacon" rate is the point at which your tracker goes<br>
> from "transmit on a turn" mode to "beacon every xx miles" mode.<br>
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</div>No, the fast speed is where your tracker starts beaconing at the fast rate,<br>
i.e. a purely timed beacon at higher rate. Only between slow and fast speeds<br>
does SmartBeaconing work in "beacon every xx miles" modulo corner pegging, and<br>
then only by scaling the fast beacon rate by the ratio between "fast speed" and<br>
your current speed. Above fast speed, corner pegging is disabled and<br>
everything's just timed at a fixed rate.<br>
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Look again at the algorithm on <a href="http://www.hamhud.net/hh2/smartbeacon.html" target="_blank">http://www.hamhud.net/hh2/smartbeacon.html</a>, it<br>
doesn't jibe with some of what you've said here.<br>
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