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Hello Doug,

1. Your direwolf.conf config looks ok but I have some ideas:

?? 1.a. There is trash in there like the following.? It's recommended to clean that up

? ? ? ? \xe0\xb8\xa7\xe0\xb8\xb4\xe0\xb8\x97\xe0\xb8\xa2\xe0\xb8\xb8\xe0\xb8\xaa\xe0\xb8\xa1\xe0\xb8\xb1\xe0\xb8\x84\xe0\xb8\xa3\xe0\xb9\x80\xe0\xb8\xa5\xe0\xb9\x88\xe0\xb8\x99"

?? 1.b.Your TBEACON line is sending both too often (every minute) and also sending to WIDE2-1.

?????? TBEACON DELAY=0:05 EVERY=1:00 VIA=WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1 SYMBOL=/k

? ? ???? - To transmit less with your APRS tracker, simply add the term "SMARTBEACONING" without any other options to the direwolf.conf file

? ? ???? - If your in a urban area with a lot of APRS digipeaters around, WIDE1-1 should be more than enough

?? 1.c, At the bottom of your file, you have other items that need tuning:

?????? FX25TX 1?? - remove this, APRS generally does NOT use FX25, really only HF packet uses this
?????? PERSIST 63 - don't configure this, leave it to direwolf to set the defaults
?????? SLOTTIME 12 - don't configure this, leave it to direwolf to set the defaults
?????? RETRY 5???? - don't configure this, as this is mostly only for classic packet.. not APRS.? leave it to direwolf to set the defaults
?????? FRACK 5???? - don't configure this, leave it to direwolf to set the defaults
?????? MAXFRAME 4 - don't configure this, as this is mostly only for classic packet.. not APRS.? leave it to direwolf to set the defaults
?????? PACLEN 128? - don't configure this, as this is mostly only for classic packet.. not APRS.? leave it to direwolf to set the defaultsDWAIT 5

?????? TXDELAY 50? - this is excessively high.? What radio do you have?? Set this to "25" to start and depending on which radio you have, this might come down to 12 (aka 120ms)

?????? TXTAIL 35??? - this is excessively high.? Per your orignal post "APRS\ Tracker.docx" file, you using an Rpi4, What OS (version and is the GUI running)?? What sound card?? Set this to "10" to start and depending on your setup you have, this might come down to 1, 5, or not needed at all



2. Your DIrewolf startup screen-capture but it's clear at least your RX mixer level needs to come down to a rough "50" average.? Since this is way out of whack, I have to assume your TX level is also wrong.? If that's wrong, no remote station will be able to decode your signals.? How confident are you that your sound mixer levels are correct?? Check out for some ideas.? Also see my commend below where you're NOT restoring your saved alsamixer levels.? This is bad!


3. Per your orignal post "APRS\ Tracker.docx" file, few thoughts:
??? - Do NOT remove PulseAudio.? This isn't nessisary and will most likely screw up the OS install

??? - this doc mentions the user "pi" which has been deprecated for a very long time.? You really should only be using Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm (Debian 12) these days

??? - While you are saving the alsamixer levels, you are NOT restoring them before you start direwolf.? You need to run "alsactl restore" before you run direwolf.? You can add this into the dw-start.sh script if you wish.

??? - Under your persistent storage section, all the hwclock stuff is actually for the GPS section and/or adding a RTC (highly recommended for any Raspberry Pi aprs node -


--David
KI6ZHD

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