Introduction
Introduction Statistics Contact Development Disclaimer Help
Hello gopher enthusiasts and passers-by. It's September, which
means it is ROOPHLOCH [1] season! Unfortunately the month flew by,
as it always seems to. Guess I shouldn't be surprised anymore.
Regardless, this is a pretty low key entry. I'll expand a little
more on the actual entry [2], which again used the APRS to gopher
tailphlogger bashed together in Python. After slacking all year, I
finally got around to sending message acknowledgements which will
stop the APRS client from retrying upon receipt. Although I don't
have any client that sends a message without requesting an
acknowledgement, which would be nice to test so the program will
only send an ack when requested. Anyways, I will clean up the code
from all the flotsam from testing and debugging and will put it
somewhere in case anyone else wants to poke at it.
For the attempt itself, I tried sending a couple line entry via an
HT strapped to my bag during an off road motorcycle trip, but I
was either too far in the hole or too low power to be heard by a
digipeater to send it along. The other attempt at low elevation
and highway speeds also did not bear fruit. I probably could have
climbed the hill and stood still long enough to get a good
transmission, but I really wanted to test it in everyday and often
suboptimal conditions.
A test via the cell network did show that the tailphlogger was
still operational, so on the next attempt that is what I decided
to use. I suppose the adage "two is one and one is none" holds
water in this case. I will perform more tests with the HT and see
how I can make it work more reliably. The topology of digipeaters
have changed so I guess I'll just have to map out where I can get
good signal to communicate once more.
In the end, I still find it fun to play with the APRS system, and
making these fun little widgets improve the utility of the network
for me. Keeping the spirit alive for WB4APR (SK).
Tags: #ROOPHLOCH #APRS #hamradio
[0] Text-only version
[1] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~solderpunk/phlog/announcing-roophloc…
[2] APRS tailphlogs
You are viewing proxied material from zaibatsu.circumlunar.space. The copyright of proxied material belongs to its original authors. Any comments or complaints in relation to proxied material should be directed to the original authors of the content concerned. Please see the disclaimer for more details.