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<div>When I lived in Tokyo as 7J6CAT/1, and my wife bought our first computer (Mac Performa; 6310 1GB HD ! Was Partitioned for English / Japanese too !; Lol)</div>
<div>I put up a Diamond; V-2000 Vertical, about 35' feet up off the ground, in North West Tokyo (Kameari; Katsushika' Ku').</div>
<div>I had a CONSTANT S-9 Signal from the opposite side of Tokyo, on 52.5MHz; operating @ 1200BPS.</div>
<div>There were SEVERAL Nodes, all over town, that I ALWAYS had a MASSIVE signal from.</div>
<div>I barely ran 10W on an IC-746, and never had anything but a SOLID connection...no Intermod, No garbage.</div>
<div><br>Yes; this is an EXCELLENT idea; to get something started on 50MHz as a National APRS Frequency.</div>
<div><br>Whenever anyone brought this up in the past, I would listen around on the band, but never heard anything.</div>
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<div>I have mentioned before, that in Japan, there is a National Node (or USED to be, anyway) frequency of 29.090MHz</div>
<div>at 1200BPS WITH an 88.5Hz Tone on it.</div>
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<div>ALWAYS had SOLID SIGNAL from this frequency.</div>
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<div>I set out to make, at that time, the ULTIMATE Ham / Packet / HF / VHF Station (for a Tokyo Apartment Dweller Ham).</div>
<div>Naturally, I bought an AEA PK-900, with MacRatt III Software included....I still have it.</div>
<div>I had an 8 Band; Cushcraft AP8 on the roof, with a dozen radials hanging off it.</div>
<div>It was SO well set up, that your friendly neighborhood Tokyo Electric Power Company Officials paid me a visit.</div>
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<div>They proceeded to inform me, that my AP-8 was within 2-3 M of their Lowest High Tension Line ( a Ground), which of course was located DIRECTLY above</div>
<div>my apartment building (the ONLY Lines in the entire area ).</div>
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<div>They came with a diagram, meticulously detailed of the location of my antenna and various landmarks showing the proximity of my antenna to their</div>
<div>Line, and said I would have to drop the height TWO FULL Meters, to be within Safety Standard, which TOTALLY messed up the Q of my Vertical, naturally.</div>
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<div>There was a Packet Cluster, on 10.139MHz as I recall...which of course, plotted your DX Station, via APRS Software.</div>
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<div>What I am trying to say here with all this drivel, is that virtually on EVERY BAND, I could find activity for Packet. </div>
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<div>Frankly; I'm surprised no one has ever done this before to a more successful outcome. </div>
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<div>Matt; WA4TKG</div>
<div>Previously; 7J6CAT; " The ONLY APRS Station in Japan " tm</div>
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<div><br><br>Subject: REF: 6 m APRS<br>Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 09:34:20 -0800<br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">I believe it is 50.62. 6 meter seems ideal for a longer range fixed station messaging backbone.</div>
<div dir="auto">If we got some smarter path routing involved we could get some real range out of the system without being reliant on the internet.
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<div dir="auto">If anyone is interested in setting something up in Southern California I could setup a station in Culver City.</div>
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<div dir="auto">-Jess</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 6, 2017 9:25 AM, "Earl Needham" <<a href="mailto:earl.kd5xb@gmail.com">earl.kd5xb@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">We've talked about using 6 meters for APRS in the past and I don't think it ever went very far. The reason, in my opinion, that 2 meters has worked so well for APRS is that it's on a common frequency nation-state. That, plus the fact that 2 meter radios are so available.
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<div dir="auto">IS there a common frequency for 6 meter APRS?</div>
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<div dir="auto">Vy 7 3</div>
<div dir="auto">Earl</div>
<div dir="auto">KD5XB</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;">-----Original Message-----<br> From: <a href="mailto:ve2gqf@gmail.com" target="_blank">ve2gqf@gmail.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ve2gqf@gmail.com" target="_blank">ve2gqf@gmail.com</a>]<br> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2017 10:46 AM<br> To: <a href="mailto:WB4APR@amsat.org" target="_blank">WB4APR@amsat.org</a><br> Subject: 6 m APRS<br> <br> Hi Bob,<br> <br> My name is Gilles, VE2GQF and live in Sherbrooke, Québec and an aprs<br> enthousiat since the begening !<br> <br> We are interested to try APRS on 6 m band in Quebec province. Is it a good<br> idea ? Is this mode on this band is always used ? Internet seem to be have<br> no large information about it ?<br> <br> I'm going to Florida in few days, is there always any 6 m APRS Igate near<br> Washington and Georgia - If yes I will transmet APRS 6 m beacon in my trip.<br> <br> <br> Thank's for your answer and sorry if my english is not good, this is not my<br> first langage.<br> <br> <br> 73's Gilles ve2gqf<br> </blockquote>
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