On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) <[email protected]> wrote:
> Don't let James put you off. He means well! ; Hey, what if I meant ill? JD, have you heard the one about the guy that bought a chainsaw? He was promised that it would cut a whole heap of wood in a day. After two days and very little progress he takes it back to the dealer to complain. The dealer starts the saw up to make sure it works, to which owner then yells, "Hey, what's that noise?" These forums are all about asking questions, and getting answers, but they also have archives. The question you asked gets asked pretty close to once a week. It generally goes "I set up my tracker and everything is perfect, so why am I not showing up on aprs.fi". Quite often these queries are sent without any callsign or identifying information available. You at least gave us a hint because your username and email address both contain your callsign. (Which Lynn's tired old eyes missed! HA! Now I've caught both you and Keith on that one!) The user manual tells you that your deviation should be set at about 3.5 kHz, but that is buried in the TXLEVEL command description. Hey, maybe we should be harrassing Scott to include a section in the user manual labelled 'I've got everything working perfectly, why do I not show up on aprs.fi". What about it Scott? Can we get you to include a rudimentary section in the PDF file about setting deviation? There are a few of us who have written the section out a number of times already. Deviation is the number one problem... everyone seems to think louder is better. We could probably write up a section for the PDF which starts out with setting the deviation, and then about checking the rest of the setup, including power, antenna, SWR, etc. Then go into proper path settings, what to expect when you're expecting a digipeat, etc. If we did that, then we could all simply say "RTFM, page 35!" At the end of the section, we could have a list of questions that says "Post the answers to these questions when asking for help on the reflector.", and when someone doesn't include the answers to the questions, they get the "RTFM, page 35!" answer. We'd know then that the person asking the question at least read end of the section, and we'd have some rudimentary information about who they are, what their callsign is, where they are, and whether they have done more than plugged the unit in and looked at the website. I think between a few of us, we could come up with a fairly decent copy. We'd even let you edit it if you felt so desired. James VE6SRV
