No, its the temperature in the cabinet AS I STATED.
--- In [email protected], James Ewen <ve6...@...> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Rudy <ben...@...> 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
>
