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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The most important thing to realize is that if you can hit TWO digipeaters, then the chance is very high that you will NOT get a “MY PACKET” display since both of those digis will BOTH digipeate your packet at the same time and you will always get a collision.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">But this is very easy to know. Just –listen- to the APRS channel. If you hear an immediate digipeat of your packet and the noise is strong (even if it is a cgarbled collision) then you know it got out even though you will not decode it. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Expecting to see MY PACKET will rarely ever work, unless you are only in range of a single digi.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Hope that helps.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I never depend on “my packet” to know how the channel is working. I depend on what I see on the signal strength display and what I hear.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Bob, WB4APR</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Bruce Prior [mailto:<a href="mailto:n7rr@hotmail.com">n7rr@hotmail.com</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 24, 2013 3:04 PM<br><b>To:</b> TH-D72 List<br><b>Subject:</b> Audio Feedback for APRS Packets and Messages on the TH-D72</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">I was on two Summits On The Air climbs recently and I was trying to get spot information posted via APRS regarding my operational parameters: frequency and mode. When I sent regular APRS packets with the current info in Status Text as well as messages sent to SOTA, I very seldom got the two-tone audio feedback that they had been received by an I-Gate, so I kept sending them. When I got home I found that a large number of my packets and messages had, indeed, been successful in getting into the system, so most of those repeats were not necessary. Is there some parameter I need to change on my TH-D72 so that I get feedback on APRS packets and messages which succeed in entering the APRS web system?<br>
Thanks and 73,<br>Bruce Prior N7RR <br id="FontBreak"></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><br><br></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">J. Bruce Prior 853 Alder Street Blaine, WA 98230-8030 360-332-6046 • Grid CN88px • Amateur Radio Station N7RR • The CW Operators' Club 846 • Washington State SOTA Manager • Pacific Northwest Trail Association • American Alpine Club #1672 • </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">SATERN</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p>
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