Wyoming B.S. Thread

Hold on, I'm relaying from my dad.

I miss spoke a bit. So the TNC sends a voltage to the flat audio pin of the radio and that varies the amplitude of the signal. By change you can alter the deviation to allow it to be heard better.

So yes, chances of getting a packet out increase.

 

It will be interesting to compare my unmodified beacons to yours.

 

Indeed! I'm feeling good about it. 1.3swr on the antenna and 3khz deviation.

And not a ton of digipeaters where we will be. Should be a decent test

 

Coverage may be better than you think. IIRC, Timmy's beacons from the same area were pretty thorough.

I'm sure it will be better than south eastern BC.

 

There are 7? I think. I can't remember. I'll look

 

Monte, what setting are you going to use in aprsdroid for broadcasting?

I know you had this discussion with Mr Tim last year when we were in Ca and I also know he feels strongly on the topic and has hammered both Ben and me about it.

 

It's a wider bandwidth on the signal you broadcast.

Like...error. Instead of a 1% error yours is mostly likely at, mine allows 3%.

My dad says most digi preaters are tuned for a 2.5- 3khz deviation.

 

You mean how often do I beacon? Every 5 mins or 135° change.

And I told you what you us where doing wasn't good haha

 

I was following you guys by monitoring Timmy's callsign on aprs.fi. I don't know Kevin's CS.

But it looked like Timmy was using the smart beaconing setting, the one that broadcast at every turn.

 

I don't give a fuck. You too are ridiculous. You don't need to see where one another is every second Jesus.

Id just manually beacon if you asked and where that concerned.

We never had it before. And didn't need it. Now it's just handy. I'm not relying on to know where you are because unless you say something I'm going to assume all is well in the world. You get lost? No problem. Just manually beacon. Takes two seconds and give an up to date data point.

Guys are glued to your screens in the truck now..

 

I have to agree with Ben on this. Every 5 minutes is not nearly enough if the intent is to keep track of each other when we are not in visual contact. Please consider modifying that.

 

We always stayed on visual range before. Had to. This tool provides a way to get separated.

 

Lol no it's stupid. Haha you guys are way to dependent of this now. And it's only been one trip.

I'm not changing it.

Ben. Dad says to look up aprs deviation

 

Oh bullshit. Lolo? Hell no we didn't. Washington? Again. Hell no.

Any large trail we would get spread out enough where relaying on CBs didn't work.

 

http://www.febo.com/packet/layer-one/transmit.html

That is all...

 

Absolutely not . I get that this forum thrives on misinformation, but please don't drag my name into the mix. Especially when ive gone through best practices with each one of you individually. And I'll cut the power cord to any of your radios if I catch you beaconing at a 1min interval on a shared resource. None of you are that important.

 

One minute intervals. Not too worried about that. You'd have to show up to one of our adventures to do that.

 

This is a BS comparison. We had pre-run both of those. We knew exactly where we were going.

I gotta laugh at using Lolo as an example. I have run that one 3 or 4 times now. There is no way to get lost on that one. There is no way to take a wrong turn.

 

Dissapointed

 

well..

A) you'd actually have to be there to do that

B) If you cut anything on my rigs without my say so, your LBJs will suddenly "fall" out

Eh. Not as handy for nav as using gpx tracks and satellite imagery. It is okay don't get me wrong, but not a nice, there is better options.

This is probably due to your radio not being tuned and TNC. Just saying. On top of that, its not just about hitting igates. You are still broadcasting every minute which means any local stations that aren't igates get overwhelmed with your data.

Now granted, in canada, not such a big deal ill admit. But just about everywhere else...its too much.

You don't need to know where eachother are THAT freaking much. I mean seriously. You guys are worse then Lisa about this now haha

I NEED TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE ON THE MAP! hahahaha

Doesn't matter if there isn't a wrong turn. Can still blow up....like i did

and the first time I did it with you i had never run it. And we always spread out away from the dust. So i don't see your BS call there.

And regaurdless...Washington is a perfect example. And it worked out fine. You knew a majority of it ya, but no one else did. And we where very spread out there too.

Look out the window once in a while

You'll get over it im sure. You'll see.