Scott,
Digipeating on the Baofeng is fast becoming a failed experiment for me. Luckily my antenna is inside a building covered in stucco? over wire. The signal is not heard very far and AFAICT, there are no other repeaters functioning in the area. I am looking for a replacement for the soundcard that will not require VOX or just turn it into an igate. I would like to find out why I have have packets out on beacon, but not digipeat.
Thanks for your input.
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On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 10:26 AM, Scott Currie wrote:
Please do not use Baofeng VOX on APRS (or any other digital mode). The built-in VOX delay is not adjustable and is rather long. This means when you transmit, once the data frame has been sent, your TX will remain on the air for the delay. Other stations will hear the end of your data frame and will then transmit, but your station is still on the air, so it will interfere with their data. This is a bad thing, and we hear it all too often on APRS. I wish they would stop selling those cables!
Also, Baofeng radios have notoriously bad turn around times from TX to RX. They are very poor candidates for digital operations. Some work OK, others do not work at all.?
-Scott, NS7C?
