There's a station about 65 miles from my position, about 50 miles from our digipeater position that seems to somehow be hording all the iGate traffic.
I'm about 15 miles from our digipeater
My issue with it is a couple things...
- I setup a iGate in the area because there was no coverage in the area at the time.
- He's pulling enough traffic that it's quite possible if things got busy enough that his iGate wouldn't be able to handle the load and if that ends up being the case then users suffer
My question is, how can I tune my iGate to respond properly and fast enough to negate the point of traffic in the area being redirected to another area so far away and optimize the local APRS experience for all users?
Currently I'm running 2M, I plan to change this to include 440 in coming months or days.
A fellow ham and I have been working on getting coverage in the area and splitting the areas in such a manner that we hope to never see more traffic than any one iGate can ever handle there by potentially providing the best user experience possible.
Granted we're new to APRS but that doesn't mean we're not trying or am I just being vein?
My fellow ham put up a digipeater about a year or more ago and we've been putting up iGates to fill in the uncovered areas
My iGate consists of a Rasberry Pi 3B, a CMedia sound fob, PTT is triggered via the CMedia's GPIO pin to a commercial Kenwood which has been repurposed for APRS use.
My config is as follows (I'm cutting out the stock information)
ARATE 48000
ADEVICE? plughw:2,0
CHANNEL 0
MYCALL KD7WPQ-10
MODEM 1200 E+ /3
PTT CM108
TXDELAY 15
SLOTTIME 1
PERSIST 33
AGWPORT 8000
KISSPORT 8001
FIX_BITS 1 AX25
CBEACON dest="MORSE-10" info="de KD7WPQ"
IGMSP 0
IGSERVER noam.aprs2.net
IGLOGIN (Redacted)
PBEACON delay=21 every=10 overlay=S symbol="igate" lat=48^18.N long=116^31.W power=5 height=20 gain=3 comment="Ponderay, ID iGate"
PBEACON sendto=IG delay=0:30 every=10:00 symbol="igate" overlay=T lat=48^18.N long=116^31.W
IBEACON delay=0:01 every=10:00 VIA=WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1 symbol="igate" overlay=T lat=48^18.N long=116^31.W
IGTXVIA 0 WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1
IGTXLIMIT 6 10
