<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_1462118997727_3226">You have no clue.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462118997727_3227">A device at 25,000 ft hits every digi within 300 MILES or more. <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462118997727_3612">Every one of those digis has to re-transmit that packet because of the path used.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462118997727_3611" dir="ltr">At a rate of every 30-40 seconds its abusive. (EVEN APRS.FI says so)</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462118997727_3577" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462118997727_3576" dir="ltr">Anyone who has done ballooning with APRS should have known this if they bothered to research.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462118997727_3613" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462118997727_3614" dir="ltr">NO Hops are required above a few thousand feet and transmit rates should be set by speed, just like everyone else does in their cars.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462118997727_3615" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462118997727_3617" dir="ltr">YOU should be glad that some people still care to maintain APRS Nodes and networks so EVERYONE can SHARE it.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462118997727_3618" dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">de VE1AIC.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462118997727_3652" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462118997727_3653" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462118997727_3654" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462118997727_2966"><span></span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"> On Sunday, May 1, 2016 11:53 AM, Jason KG4WSV <kg4wsv@gmail.com> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">> On May 1, 2016, at 9:34 AM, Ron via aprssig <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org" href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Today 2 balloons at the same time out of Maine are pounding our network with abusive settings that are unacceptable.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Please explain how this is significantly different from the perspective of the LOCAL network than a terrestrial station with the same settings? (Hint: practically not at all assuming your network is built correctly.)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">If a single station with these settings can cause your local network significant problems you should spend some effort on fixing your local network. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Why would a balloon at 26,000ft moving at 15kmh need to beacon every 40 seconds and use WIDE hops across our network?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">To track it and get the payload back?<div class="yqt9386723325" id="yqtfd69558"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">> At this rate they'll be blasting our network all day long.</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">A typical HAB flight lasts approximately 2 hours. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">Be glad someone is doing something more useful/interesting than letting the wife track you on your way to the grocery store. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">-Jason<br clear="none">kg4wsv<div class="yqt9386723325" id="yqtfd24126"><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>