Quote History Originally Posted By seek2:
Really active in my area as well, but the vast majority of traffic is status packets about the
network itself and a handful of home or weather stations.
I made really good use of it when I had my cabin, I used it to send telemetry packets every six hours
or so (at minimum power, since it was a mountaintop and I could hit digis 150+ miles away with 5 watts.)
A lot of the time it was more reliable than LTE due to the remote location.
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Years ago when I had APRS set up it seemed there were a lot less objects on my screen.
I tried to hit the ISS digipeater earlier but never made it. I sent beacon with text a few times using the path: ARISS, WIDE1-1, WIDE2-2. I heard them a while, but only copied RS0ISS twice before they faded. I tried to time my beacons when ISS signal was strongest. Maybe path should be RSOISS? I was under the impression ARISS would always work. I quickly tried sending message directly to RSOISS but no joy. They were too weak by then.
Could be they just never copied me on any of my attempts.
Had it working years ago by leaving the TNC in KISS mode with APRSISCE/32 windows software.
Good pass coming in the morning @6:31am here, may give it another shot.