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Standard Served Agency
Station equipment:
Fixed Station-
Alinco DR-135TP (HRO $270)
Laptop/PC (Pentium or
faster with Windows 98SE or newer)
APRS+SA software ($15)
Street Atlas 9.0 (Ebay
~$40)
2 meter antenna
(~$50-$125)
cables (~$30)
Mobile Station-
Kenwood TM-D700A (HRO
$500)
Garmin GPS III (Ebay
~$125)
Laptop/PC (Pentium or
faster with Windows 98SE or newer)
APRS+SA software ($15)
Street Atlas 9.0 (Ebay
~$40)
2 meter antenna
(~$50-$125)
GPS external antenna
(Ebay ~$30)
cables (~$30)
Portable Station-
Kenwood TH-D7Ag (HRO $350)
Speaker/Mic SMC33 (HRO
$70)
Extra battery (HRO $50)
Garmin GPS III (Ebay
~$125)
cables (~$30)
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Recommended Path Settings for MOBILEs
WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1 :Two hops in all directions and potential for fill-in
digis. Best path for mobile use in most all areas.
WIDE1-1,WIDE2-2 :Three hops and potential for fill-in digis. Use only
while needed if far from any mountain digis or cities.
Recommended Path Settings for FIXED stations
WIDE2-2 :Two hops, recommended max courteous routine for most areas.
Best routine from home in most areas.
WIDE3-3 :Three hops, only for very sparse areas far from any mountain
digis or cities. Limited to one hop by many digis.
UIDIGI setting-
WIDE1-1
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When using an older TNC
for your house and fill-in digipeat station, insert your position fix
in the BTEXT, set the TNC to beacon at 30 minute intervals, and set up
an alias of "WIDE1-1". Here is an example:
mycall ab7c
myalias WIDE1-1
unproto aprs via WIDE2-2
btext !0000.00N/00000.00W-
beacon every 30 (might need to be 600 depending on
TNC)
txdelay 30
digipeat on
xmitok on
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