On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 06:41 PM, Louis Botterill wrote:
Hi,
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Yes exactly that. I am not really sure why that particular config is in the web-ui rather than the main config file but anyways yes that¡¯s it.
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I am new also. What I heard from others is approximately this (and it¡¯s largely common sense also);
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No APRS, Wx, Position or extraneous messages like that, as much as it is tempting. APRS itself anyway has other proper band frequencies (and also such as on 30m).
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Beacon about even 10mins (or more) once settled in. If you beacon every say 6mins no one likely going to care, but every 30s would be too often, etc.
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Try keep it to a one-liner or maybe 2 at a push, don¡¯t send 6 or 10 lines with life story in it¡ :)
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Then all should be good!
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I see we tried connect to each other a few times, nearly works - sure it will on a good path day¡
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I had some packet DX today, quite interesting to see that, band seemed very long.
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All the best, 73 de Louis / kd2yck
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On Sep 9, 2023, at 11:57 PM, Chris, N6CTA <mail@...> wrote:
I think I found out what you meant Louis, the per port beaconing is set via the web interface in linux! I'm happy to have found it. I may reconfigure how I send IDs and Beacons now that I can actually send Beacons. I'm not sure what makes the most sense though to be honest. I just want the message to be helpful and not QRM. I'm very new to this but I'm getting it sorted day by day as I learn what seems to be the most sane for an HF only Node/BBS/Chat. It's very easy to flood the network with useless traffic.
Thank you for the information! One interesting thing I found is that with FX.25 being backwards compatible with AX.25 there is no real reason to not use it. It has improved the quality of my connections immensely with stations that also have it enabled. Do you know how people here feel about MailFor beacons? I have them set to 35 min. Hopefully this isn't annoying for anyone. I have it set to only send if there actually is mail for someone.
