Posted: 11/26/2012 2:14:29 PM EDT
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I'm in a bit of a situation with soundmodem. If I setup everything at my base station (ts-2000, linux laptop, external sound card, donner interface) to do APRS I can TX packets. I can verify they are sent because it shows up on APRS.fi but I cannot receive any packets. I can hear them at s7-9 but it doesn't show up. If I send packets with my th72 they show up so I know that it can receive.
I'm lost so any help would be great |
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So I am still not 100% sure what the problem is. I found out how to get the internal tnc to work directly with xastir so I ditched soundmodem and used a tnc (I still use soundmodem for my HT/Netbook setup with no problems)
I can still communicated back and forth with my TH-72 but can't get anything else. I am still getting out, 100miles one time 
I found this on the aprs.org site FIX YOUR ANTENNA FIRST: If you are seeing good "S" meter signals on APRS but not decoding every packet, then you are hearing collisions from two or more local digi's. The APRS network is a contention based system and so the best base-station antenna is often not a high omni. It is one that is placed such that it hears all local digis but with at least a 10 dB different signal between them. This assures that one will always win in a collision, and you wont miss any packets. read about APRS antennas.
Which makes sense, so I turned my power down low with hopes of only getting a packet to the nearest digipeter but still didn't work |