Monday, September 21, 2009

Digipeater settings for VK6

The KPC 9612 TNC is being used to implement telemetry-capable, PARADIGM-compliant digipeaters in Western Australia.

Here's the configuration template being used to program them.

Note that using WAn-N in your path will produce the same results as WIDE used to do without tracing.

The new PARADIGM configuration means that WIDE now performs the same function as TRACE used to, and that the digi's no longer respond to TRACE at all.

Recommended paths are now:

Home stations VIA WIDE2-2

Mobile stations VIA WIDE1-1, WIDE2-2

Special Events VIA WIDE1-1,WAn-N

Home stations should digipeat the alias of WIDE1-1 this is the same as the old RELAY.

*********KPC 9612+ CONFIG TEMPLATE*********

8BITCONV ON
ABAUD 9600
AUTOLF ON
AX25L2V2 ON
AXDELAY 0
AXHANG 0
BEACON EVERY 20
BKONDEL ON
BLT
1 EVERY 01:00:00
2 EVERY 01:00:01
3 EVERY 01:00:02
4 EVERY 01:00:03
BREAK OFF
BTEXT !ddmm.mmS/dddmm,mmE#PHG5200Paradigm digi supporting WAn-N and WIDEn-N
BUDLIST OFF NONE
A Link state is: DISCONNECTED
CANLINE $18 (CTRL-X)
CANPAC $19 (CTRL-Y)
CD SOFTWARE
CHECK 0 (disabled)
CMDTIME 1 (1 sec)
CMSG PBBS
COMMAND $03 (CTRL-C)
CONLIST OFF NONE
CONMODE CONVERS
CONOK ON
CONPERM OFF
CPACTIME OFF
CR ON
CRSUP OFF
CSTAMP OFF
CTEXT APRS WIDE digi!; routing to PBBS...
CTRL A OFF B OFF
CWID EVERY 0 (disabled)
CWIDTEXT DE VK6***
DAYTIME 10/02/97 15:13:11
DAYTWEAK 8
DAYSTR mm/dd/yy hh:mm:ss
DAMA OFF
DAMACHCK 18 (180 sec)
DBLDISC OFF
DELETE $08 (CTRL-H)
DIGIPEAT ON
DWAIT 0
ECHO ON
ESCAPE OFF
FLOW ON
FILTER OFF
FRACK 4 (4 sec)
FULLDUP OFF
GPSHEAD
1
2
3
4
GPSINIT
HBAUD 1200
HEADERLN OFF
HID OFF
HTEXT
INTFACE TERMINAL
KNTIMER 15 min
LEDS ON
LCOK ON
LFADD ON
LFSUP OFF
LLIST OFF NONE
LT
1 :VK6***-3 :PARMS.I-in,Batt,I-out,Temp
2 :VK6***-3 :UNIT.A,V,A,degC
3 :VK6***-3 :EQNS.0,1,-204,0,0.05,-5,0,-1,189,0,1,-120
4 :VK6***-3 :BITS.11000000,????? site status (ROLEYS,GORRIE ETC)
LTP
1 APN991 VIA WIDE2-2
2 APN991 VIA WIDE2-2
3 APN991 VIA WIDE2-2
4 APN991 VIA WIDE2-2
LTRACK 0
MONITOR OFF
MALL ON
MAXFRAME 4
MAXUSERS 10
MBEACON ON
MCON OFF
MCOM OFF
MHEADER ON
MRESP OFF
MRPT ON
MSTAMP OFF
MXMIT ON
MYCALL VK6***-3
MYALIAS ?????? (TICHIL,GORRIE,ROLEYS,TURNER etc)
MYDROP 0
MYNODE VK6***-7
MYPBBS VK6***-11
MYREMOTE >>>>>>
NDWILD OFF
NEWMODE ON
NOMODE OFF
NTEXT APRS DIGI KEEP NODE TRAFFIC TO A MINIMUM!!
NUMNODES 0
PACLEN 0
PACTIME AFTER 10 (1000 msec)
PASS $16 (CTRL-V)
PASSALL OFF
PBBS 100 (Probably should be disabled in the city?)
PBFORWRD NONE EVERY 0 (disabled)
PBHEADER ON
PBHOLD ON
PBKILLFW OFF
PBLIST OFF NONE
PBLO NEW VARIABLE
PBPERSON OFF
PBREVERS ON
PERSIST 63 (25%)
PID OFF
PMODE CMD
PTEXT This is an APRS digi Please keep PBBS traffic LIGHT!.
REDISPLA $12 (CTRL-R)
RELINK OFF
RETRY 10
RING ON
RNRTIME 0 (disabled)
RTEXT <<<<<<
SCREENL 0
SENDPAC $0D (CTRL-M)
SLOTTIME 10 (100 msec)
START $11 (CTRL-Q)
STOP $13 (CTRL-S)
STREAMSW $7C (|)
STREAMCA OFF
STREAMEV OFF
SUPLIST OFF
SWP 17,17,108
TELEMTRY 60
TRACE OFF
TRFLOW OFF
TRIES 10
TXDELAY 30 (300 msec)
TXFLOW OFF
UNPROTO APN991 VIA WIDE2-2
UIDIGI ON WIDE4-4,WIDE5-5,WIDE6-6,WIDE7-7
UIDUPE 30
UIDWAIT OFF
UIFLOOD WA,30,NOID
UITRACE WIDE,30
USERS 1
XFLOW ON
XKCHKSUM OFF
XKPOLLED OFF
XMITLVL 100

Monday, September 14, 2009

Telemetry prototype









Here's a look at the sensor board prototypes. This is the schematics
They're a bit rough still but hopefully they will be ready by tomorrow it time to be installed at tic hill.
any suggestions for improvement most welcome!!

Friday, September 4, 2009

Radio Mobile and APRS

this is how easy it is to get aprs information into radio mobile.
opens up some interesting possibilities for rf planning and design.

if anyone else thinks this is cool let me know.

another map


its from an old street directory so no copyright worries

heres the tiepoints tlh and brh
metromap.inf file sez:

31.30.28S,115.34.30E
32.39.06S,116.29.20E
Metromap


enjoy. contribute some of your own!

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Radio Mobile map



This free map should be usable with most aprs programs. YMMV.
Please let me know how you go with it.

Save it as a 514 x 514

The tiepoints are
#FILENAME default.bmp
TIEPOINT 0 0 115.5949 -31.72503
TIEPOINT 513 513 116.1251 -32.17497

Here's the default.kml file to tie it into google earth

default.bmp88ffffff
default.bmp
0.75

-31.72503
-32.17497
116.1251
115.5949