I have been reading through all the various information about Wide Aliases on the board, and am a bit confused as to how best utilize this where we are here in Alaska, and for the uses that we want to utilize this for.
I am in Bethel, Alaska about 400 miles west of Anchorage. There are no roads in and out of the city. To travel to any of our villages, other than by bush plane, we typically do it by boat in the summer or snow machine (snow mobile to the rest of the world)in the winter. We are just now getting into APRS here, but we do not want to abuse the local spectrum that we have. Right now, we have one "base" digipeater with 35 watts on a fairly prominent hill. That base digipeater (mine) is IGated. Otherwise, all other signals are coming from HT's or the occasional mobile unit that someone has mounted. Of course, we want the HT's to relay and the mobile to digipeat the signal. How would you suggest do this? To add some questions to the list, our local radio club is purchasing a Kenwood D710, and our local radio station is allowing us to mount our antennas for that unit at 210 feet. When that becomes available, we will have much better coverage, but the HT's will still be a big factor in our environment. Any suggestions from you folks on how to best set this up? Again, we want to get our local group to use it (we have close to 50 Hams in the area), but we do not want to abuse our spectrum. Thanks, Spencer Hamons - KL2RA
