On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 07:08:43PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > If you are going to go the radio/tnc route, I would set up the units to also > be digipeaters as well. This would give the low level signals a better > chance to propagate. I do not know if the D7A will digi as well, so I would > look into it.
The D7 doesn't digipeat, as I understand it. You'd need something like the TT4 or the Tracker2, neither of which is available other than as beta test yet, or some other full TNC+radio set-up. Digi-in-a-tracker is still a technique that has, IMHO, yet to be proven. It's got promise, but is still an experiment that hasn't been done widely. A portable digipeater-in-a-box, however, can be deployed at a mission as needed --- it needn't be man-portable, can be in a rugged waterproof container, and with a mast, big battery, and beefy mobile rig could be very effective. Our SAR Support team has one and can deploy it as needed (which in our case isn't often). I am still of the opinion that the SARn-N idea could work, but has the potential to jam up a channel quickly as every field team digipeats every other team's data. I am waiting to be proven wrong, at which point I'll gleefully eat my words. At this point I have no way of doinng the experiment myself, as none of the readily available tracker units can do it anyway. > This is not going to be cheap if you go with off-the-shelf solutions. > Cobbling would save much but if the capability is not there, you will have > to bite the bullet. With you on that one. Equipping an entire 12-team organization and building up a usable infrastructure's gonna be a pricey endeavor, and trying to cobble together on a budget will be difficult. > Jim Tolbert wrote: > > Thanks Tom.... Yes... We live in the undeveloped boonies. But then, we > > like it that way <grin>. > > > > The one digipeater that is in out county is AAOKU-WL and 4min. What does > > that tell us? -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
