On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Rudy <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a digi which displays both internal and external temperature > (in this case, the internal temperature of the cabinet holding the > digi and the repeater), it also reports the charge voltage.
I'm going to guess that the external temperature is the temperature inside the shack because it's currently about zero degrees in Timmins. > KAMSKI is the tactical call. KAMSKI>APOT21,WIDE1-1,WIDE2-2,WIDE3-3,qAR,VE3HOL:!4832.20N\08132.49W#12.2V 15C 13C PHG5533 VE3BDR Have you thought about sending the temperature and voltage as telemetry rather than embedded in the comment? If you do that, then you can get historical data rather than just current information. http://aprs.fi/telemetry/SPLSTD I'm just using the built-in telemetry available, but sending it as a telemetry string rather than embedded in the comment. SPLSTD>APOT21,WIDE2-2,qAR,VA6KRM-10:T#208,145,177,250,000,000,00000010 Also, what's with the 6 hop path? Just trying to make your presence felt? You're pretty much in an isolated area, so you never really get out and clobber people, but it's still a bad precedent to set. Digipeaters should never use WIDE1-1, as the digi should not need the help of a low level home station to get into the digipeaters. If it does, then it's pretty much a useless digipeater. Digipeaters should always use one less hop than what is recommended for the area, since the digipeater gets a "free first hop" due to the fact that it IS the digipeater. I like to also use the alternate paths option so that I don't flood the outlying network with excess noise, while still keeping local updates at a decent rate. SPLSTD>APOT21,WIDE2-1,qAR,VA6KRM-10:!5321.55NS11254.15W#PHG5560W3, ABn, Spilstead VE6SRV SPLSTD>APOT21,WIDE2-1,qAR,VA6KRM-10:T#207,145,177,251,000,000,00000010 SPLSTD>APOT21,WIDE2-2,qAR,VA6KRM-10:!5321.55NS11254.15W#PHG5560W3, ABn, Spilstead VE6SRV SPLSTD>APOT21,WIDE2-2,qAR,VA6KRM-10:T#208,145,177,250,000,000,00000010 I could probably drop a hop out of those outgoing paths... I forgot that I set them up for one and two hops when I was configuring the digi... BTW, for everyone reading this, I'm not trying to be harsh, and only offering suggestions as to ways of optimizing the operation of this digipeater, and possibly configuring it to provide historical telemetry data. James VE6SRV
