<div dir="ltr">Since 98% of most APRS traffic any one station hears is from digis, and not direct from actual stations, one way to look only for original packets is to set the drone-digi to digipeat UIDIGI path of "WIDE1-1" and sisable the UIFLOOD or UITRACE that do the WIDEn-N routing. Then it will only respond to the initial transmitted packet from any given mobile, and tnot the digipeated packete from the surrounding digis.<div><br></div><div>But since this will also reduce the viable traffic "heard" by 98% too, you might not have any nearby mobiles in motion using WIDE1-1 either...</div><div><br></div><div>Just a thought.</div><div>Bob</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 1:13 AM Stephen H. Smith via aprssig <<a href="mailto:aprssig@lists.tapr.org">aprssig@lists.tapr.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2020, Stephen H. Smith wrote:<br>
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>> Wow! I never heard of this device before. Looks like it would be perfect on <br>
>> my drone with a micro-stubby duck. I'm ordering one today!<br>
>><br>
>> The manual appears to be for a previous version of the firmware and doesn't <br>
>> mention the digi function. More concerning, the manual seems to imply the <br>
>> transmit path is hardwired to WIDE1-1,WIDE2-2 , which would be horrendous up <br>
>> in the air several hundred feet. Perhaps the newer firmware can let you set <br>
>> the path as needed.<br>
>><br>
>> The other question not answered by the manual: It refers to using the <br>
>> device as a TNC or GPS for an external computer. It DOESN'T mention what <br>
>> kind of serial<-->USB driver is required to create the virtual COM port.<br>
>><br>
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I've receive the PicoAPRS device and have it piggybacked on my Autel EVO drone. <br>
I've had it up for a couple of test flights and can confirm that the PicoAPRS <br>
Velcroed to the top of the drone doesn't seem to affect the flight dynamics of <br>
the drone at all.<br>
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Full details on the "Flying Digipeater", including pics, are here on my website:<br>
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<<a href="http://WA8LMF.net/FlyingDigi" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://WA8LMF.net/FlyingDigi</a>><br>
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I've had the "Flying Digi" up at about 15 feet above ground level so far, <br>
testing for stability and EMI/RFI issues between the drone's radios & <br>
electronics and the PicoAPRS transceiver. So far, no problems observed.<br>
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Later this week, I'mm going to send it up to around 350 feet and see how much <br>
APRS traffic it digis from around lower Michigan.<br>
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