Note - Recently the settings have and are changing nationwide. These changes are an effort to reduce the number of duplicate and unnecessary additional transmissions of faulty set-ups. The following tries to reflect these new settings for the Dallas and Fort Worth and surrounding area. ie North Texas.
APRS Path Settings
RELAY Only use as first entry in path (No longer recommended - Do not use - Digi's are being programmed to ignore)
RELAY is being replaced by Wide1-1 (Should only be used in the first position)
WIDE Should only appear once as first or second entry (Not Recommended)
WIDEn-n Should only appear once as first or second entry
TRACEn-n For temporary experimentation only (Also being phased out)
GATE Means gate packet to HF
NOGATE, RFONLY Mean dont gate to Internet
TCPIP, TCPXX, qXX APRS-IS only
Recommended Paths
Mobile New = WIDE1-1, WIDE2-1 Old = RELAY,WIDE or RELAY,WIDE2-2
Within the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex WIDE1-1 should suffice
Within North Texas you should use WIDE1-1 or WIDE1-1, WIDE2-1
Portable New = Same as Mobile Old = RELAY,WIDE or RELAY,WIDE2-2
Fixed DIGICALL, DIGICALL,WIDE1-1 or DIGICALL,WIDE2-2
Digis No path
Special Events New = WIDE2-2 Old = RELAY or RELAY,WIDE
Airmobile New = WIDE1-1 Old = WIDE or WIDE2-2
Balloons New = WIDE1-1 Old = WIDE or WIDE2-2
Recommended Beacon Rates
Mobile 3 minutes minimum, SmartBeacon preferred with 3 minute minimum
Portable 10 minute minimum, 20 minute preferred
Fixed 20 to 30 minutes
Weather 10 minute minimum, 15 minute preferred
Airmobile 5 minute minimum
These recommendations are a mix of the new N-n plan and those presented at the North Texas APRS seminar and were generally agreed upon by the attendees. These recommendations should be appropriate for the D/FW metropolitan area.(September 6, 2003)
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Updated Content-
9/06/2010
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