On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 7:49 PM, kd8htg <[email protected]> wrote: > All seems to work correct
Please describe the items that you have checked to confirm that all is working properly. If all is working correct, then you should have no problems. > however it seems when i get home to check my path on the aprs fi > site it only shows me with a very short track not more than a couple miles? We can not answer that question, as none of us watched you check your path. > im using smart beaconing could this be why my tracks are so short? No. SmartBeaconing does not include an algorithm that would shorten the distance that you drive. > i travel for work to an area with lots of digis and dont seem to > show any track on the aprs fi website? We don't know where you work, so can't comment on whether the digipeaters in that area show up on the APRS-IS either. > any thought as to what i might change to get a longer track > or am i doing something totally wrong? I hope you're catching my drift here... please help us help you by actually giving some real information. Details man, details! The first thing that anyone will tell you to do is to check to ensure that your station is operating properly. If you have read any of the many requests similar to yours, you'll know that the first thing you need to check is you deviation. Have you done that? 9 times out of 10, those stating that everything is perfect with their setup end up correcting a poor deviation setting. If your deviation is wrong, you can spend a lifetime fiddling with other things and never fixing your station. There are of course hundreds of other factors that could play into your problems. Your station KD8HTG had only been heard by three digipeaters, and only at close range, which would probably support the incorrect deviation idea. It could also indicate that you have a bad antenna, or blown PA stage in the radio, but you have indicated that "all seems to work correct". There are other issues in your area. N8RAY which is indicating it is an i-gate is using a path of WIDE1-1,WIDE2-2 which is ridiculous for a digipeater. It is probably delaying packets, as he is running UI-View, and not always getting into the internet first, but being digipeated and then fed into the internet. If there's a lot of activity in your area, we don't see it on aprs.fi, at least not for 20 or 30 kms around. I'd start with the usual, and actually check your station to ensure that it is working properly. http://www.febo.com/packet/layer-one/index.html James VE6SRV PS. I wonder if we could implement an automatic filter that searches for "my station works perfect, but" and then automatically reply with the link above.
