Morning Kerry,
Just looked at your station and then at the replies you have been getting. You have some good suggestions to work with, but APRS unlike most amateur radio today is often misunderstood. APRS is not (primarily) designed to allow you to see yourself on a map, but rather to see what is around you. Since you are seeing a lot of digipeaters, I think you are running your station pretty well.
I also noticed you were gracious enough to provide a way to contact you in your “comment” field. Putting an email address there is daring though. The entire world will see it. Might try putting a “voice frequency” or repeater information you regularly monitor in that section of your posit.
About the WIDE2-2 thing, if you are familiar with the mode called PACKET you might recognize that as a PATH setting, where each digipeater will respond to an “alias” named WIDE and the following numbers just tell the digipeater how many times to “resend” your data. The numbers decrement each time your posit is repeated, until it is exhausted. Hopefully during its journey it is received by a station called an IGate which puts your data into the internet.
When I checked your data this morning I noticed you had not transmitted anything in about five hours. I hope your home station is not “down” as it should be transmitting on pace anbout every 30 minutes. 30 minutes is more than sufficient to keep your home “on the map”. Mobiles can transmit more frequently, but never so fast as to congest the single VHF channel we have. I personally never transmit any of my posits mobile or otherwise any faster than once every thirty minutes……but then again, I’m never trying to see myself on the map either. I usually know where I am, and if my home station moves….I’ve got bigger problems.
Anyway, hope this helps. Venture into APRS, but take some time to study the structure of the three networks interconnected here. Having the internet, cellphone and amateur RF all connected makes this part of amateur radio really interesting.
73’蝉
Kenny, or as my friends call me: KiloWatt
