APRS SETTINGS FOR NEW SOUTH WALES

The settings provided here have been determined by the respective zone co-ordinators, with input from all Digipeater and Igate owners.
We ask that if you are going to use the New South Wales APRS network, then you follow these guidelines.

MOBILE STATIONS

MOBILE stations should use the following configuration guidelines.

• DO set your beacon rate to a MINIMUM of 45 seconds. The preferred rate is 60 seconds for mobiles.

• DO set your path to WIDE1-1,WIDE2-2. This will ensure your APRS setup will work throughout New South Wales, and is also interstate. This configuration is also backwards-compatible with the older RELAY,WIDE standard, however support for these aliases is being phased out.

• DON'T use any of the following paths - RELAY, WIDE, TRACE, TRACEn-n.
  All of these digipeater aliases are obsolete, and are being progressively phased out across the network

• DON'T set a mobile station up as a digipeater of any kind.

HOME / FIXED STATIONS

• DO set your beacon rate to a MINIMUM of 30 minutes. The preferred rate is 60 minutes for Home / Fixed stations.

• DO set your path as WIDE2-2.

• DON'T use any of the following paths - RELAY, WIDE, TRACE, TRACEn-n.
  All of these digipeater aliases are obsolete, and are being progressively phased out across the network

• DON'T use excessive transmission power. 10 watts to 20 watts is more than enough.

Since the APRS RF network needs to be carefully co-ordinated to ensure it remains effective, please note also the following requests.

• DON'T put up a WIDEn-n unless you truly have wide coverage and there are no other WIDEs in your area, and unless you plan to let it run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
  WIDE digipeaters are recommended to use a dedicated TNC running the UIDIGI firmware. If you think you meet these conditions, please contact your local region co-ordinator before setting up the digipeater.
  
• DON'T set your station up as a Fill-In digipeater (WIDE1-1) if there is already one close by. If you think there is a requirement for a Fill-In digipeater, please contact your local region co-ordinator before setting up the digipeater.

• DON'T set your station up as an IGATE (i.e. DO NOT gate data from the Internet to RF). This will only create traffic loops and problems on the channel.    
  If there is no IGate serving your local APRS zone, or there is no zone at all where you are, please contact the VK2 APRS co-ordinators so we can integrate your new zone into the network effectively.