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Does anyone have any advice or opinion on vicinity plotting of stealth digipeaters? Or have I stepped into a brave new world here?
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<div>Andrew, KA2DDO </div>
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From: "Andrew P." <andrewemt@hotmail.com> <br>
Date:12/05/2014 13:20 (GMT-05:00) <br>
To: TAPR APRS Mailing List <aprssig@tapr.org> <br>
Subject: [aprssig] Vicinity plotting of stealth digipeaters <br>
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<div>Greetings, all.
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<div>I've got a question about vicinity plotting (i.e., guessing where a station is based on its first digipeater's position when the station hasn't reported its position yet).</div>
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<div>Is it reasonable to do this in reverse, i.e., guessing where a first digipeater is, based on the position report of the digipeated station? Because stealth (non-beaconing) digipeaters are common in my area, I have implemented a first draft of this in my
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<div>I assume this needs to be improved, perhaps using direction-finding tricks such as guessing the digipeater has to be within the PHG range circles of all stations it has first-digipeated.</div>
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<div>But should I be doing this kind of approximation at all?</div>
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<div>Just curious.</div>
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<div>Andrew, KA2DDO </div>
<div>(putting my asbestos shorts on now :-)</div>
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