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Re: APRS-over-VARA crosses the Atlantic on 30 meters!


 

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On 12/1/2024 8:27 AM, wa5luy wrote:
Jose,
Thanks for the correction on your location. I should have looked you up.
Your symbol in the station list showed?RSGB so I assumed you were in the UK.
Have fun with HF APRS.
Wayne
WA5LUY
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Addressed to WA5LUY.....

1)??? RSGB??? Have you not updated the symbol set for UIview??? Only the original un-updated version of the UIview? symbol set from years ago would show RSGB.?? [Note that G4IDE (UIview's author) passed away 20 years ago,? making UIview an unchanged software orphan for two decades now!? I have released several updated symbol sets since. ]

2)??? What kind of antenna are you using???????? I have been monitoring 30M AX.25 and Vara for years and have never heard the range of European stations shown in your UIview station list.? I am using a homebrew 30M magloop.??????? It may also be differences in propagation - you ARE about 600 miles (960 Km) south of me.
??? I have often noticed that as I get farther south on road trips that I hear more stuff on 30M from the mobile. ? And that I hear MORE on 30M during the years of the quiet sun than on solar maximums. ?? 20, 15, and 10 meters benefit from the solar max, but 30 gets worse. ?

G4HYG and I have been testing a new 30m channel for APRS-over-VARA? (the old APRS Messenger center freq of 10.149.700 MHz)? for the last week or so. Both he and I are beaconing on this frequency every 15 mins or so 24/7.?? [You do this channel by setting the radio dial freq to 10.148.200 USB and run VARA with it's normal 1500 Hz audio center tone.] ? ? I am copying him from the north of the UK, from my QTH here in central Michigan, quite consistently when the radio path crosses the grey line (day/night boundary) as shown on my GeoChron or (freeware Windows software model of the GeoChron).? When the path is all day, or all night, I don't hear him.

3)?? It appears you have the station expiration timing in UIview set to "Never" -- you seem to have stations heard over months rather than just the last hour or two, or so showing.?? (On my UIwebserver mapping displays, I have the expire set to 90 minutes because I am trying to show more-or-less current band conditions.)



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