<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_2970">Today 2 balloons at the same time out of Maine are pounding our network with abusive settings that are unacceptable.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_2935" dir="ltr">Are there any HAMs running these projects?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3276" dir="ltr">Why would a balloon at 26,000ft moving at 15kmh need to beacon every 40 seconds and use WIDE hops across our network?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3292" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3293" dir="ltr">I can copy them direct at over 300 miles away.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3375" dir="ltr">At this rate they'll be blasting our network all day long.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3376" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3309" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3294" dir="ltr">73, Ron</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3275" dir="ltr">VE1AIV</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3274" dir="ltr">MARCAN APRS Admin</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3388" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_2936" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3023" dir="ltr">KB1YOF-11>APRS via WIDE2-1,qAR,W1TG-1 (seriously-bad)<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3030">This station appears to be flying at high altitude and using digipeaters, which causes serious congestion in the APRS network. The tracker should be configured to only use digipeaters when at low altitude.<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3031">Positions stored: 1465<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3032">Packet rate: 41 seconds between packets on average during 2068 seconds.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3059" dir="ltr">Altitude: 26828 m<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3136">Course: 200°<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3137">Speed: 15 km/h</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3138" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3193" dir="ltr">--------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3194" dir="ltr">N1YIP-11>APZUME via WIDE2-1,qAr,VE2SIL (seriously-bad)<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3168">This station appears to be flying at high altitude and using digipeaters, which causes serious congestion in the APRS network. The tracker should be configured to only use digipeaters when at low altitude.<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3169">Positions stored: 723<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3170">Packet rate: 39 seconds between packets on average during 1929 seconds.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3195" dir="ltr">Altitude: 28988 m<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3204">Course: 140°<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3205">Speed: 15 km/h<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3206">Last path: <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3207"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3208" dir="ltr">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3060" dir="ltr"><th id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3075" valign="top"><br></th><td id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3076" valign="top"><br></td><tr id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3077"><th id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3078" valign="top"><br></th><td id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3079" valign="top"><br></td></tr><td id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_3081" valign="top"><br></td></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_2937" dir="ltr"><td id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_2902" valign="top"><br></td><tr id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_2907"><th id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_2908" valign="top"><br></th><td id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_2909" valign="top"><br></td></tr><th id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_2910" valign="top"><br></th><td id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462112605204_2911" valign="top"><br></td></div><br></div></body></html>