[Dstar] Beaconing

[Nigel Bryer]

Hi Michael,

 

Yes you are correct I was referring to the sending of the GPS positioning
data, sorry my terminology.  So it's primarily the IC-2820 that has this
feature build-in. 

 

OK on the low speed data sending, yes I guess all combined (Beaconing &
Data) would be bandwidth consuming.  I guess though, at least the low speed
data aspect has a meaningful purpose.  Perhaps alittle out od scope for this
discussion.  Though a worthy topic for future!

 

Regards

 

Nigel

 

 

 

Nigel Bryer - VK3KSD
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> -----Original Message-----

> From: dstar-bounces at lists.wia.org.au [mailto:dstar-

> bounces at lists.wia.org.au] On Behalf Of Michael Carey

> Sent: Saturday, 3 May 2008 21:32

> To: Dstar Digital Radio Mail List

> Subject: Re: [Dstar] Beaconing

> 

> I might be looking in the wrong section of the manual, but I couldn't

> find anything specifically about "beaconing" in the IC-2820 manual. It

> can send GPS data/position on regular intervals, is this what you are

> concerned about? Or is there a way to automatically make a D-Star radio

> key up (without GPS input) on a regular interval?

> I'm lucky that I am one of three people in the Port Lincoln area (at

> the

> moment) playing with D-Star, we don't need to worry about frequency

> congestion at the moment.

> Until we get our 70cm D-Star repeater up and going (I'm picking up the

> duplexer tomorrow), I'm experimenting on the WIA band plan simplex

> frequencies. From my playing around, I could imagine that excessive

> automatic GPS positions would quickly become annoying on a D-Star

> repeater, especially if your radio beeps after each received

> transmission. This combined with people playing with low speed data via

> the repeater would quickly congest the system.

> Michael.

> VK5ZEA

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