the tower 05/13/03

• KG4YZY-10 is a Wide Area Digipeater for Pasco and surrounding counties in West Central Florida. The KG4YZY-10 node digipeats only Widen-N unproto paths as described in Bob Bruninga's Fix 144.390MHz page (the New n-N Paradigm as it's called). As a side note, all of the wide area digipeaters in the West Central Florida area now support the New Paradigm.

  Unproto path selection is simpler in the New Paradigm. It does, however, mean that relay, wide, trace, tracen-N are now obsolete unsupported paths. If you are still using these old paths please reconfigure your system's unproto paths as suggested below:

  These paths are suggested for use by fixed location users: wide1-1 - replaces the old relay or single wide, gets digipeated once.
  wide2-2 - replaces relay,wide or wide,wide gets digipeated twice.
  wide3-3 - the longest path supported, gets digipeated three times.

  If you operate mobile using fill in digipeaters these are your paths: wide1-1 - replaces the old relay or single wide, gets digipeated once. wide1-1, wide2-1 - replaces relay,wide & wide,wide - digipeated twice.
  wide1-1, wide2-2 - the longest mobile path, digipeated three times.

  Instructions for setting up a home UI-View fill-in digipeater under the new paradigm

  KG4YZY-10 is located at Lat 28.16.97N, Long 82.42.70W, Grid Square EL88PG.   The antenna is 228ft ASL - 210ft HAAT on a commercial broadcast tower in Port Richey, Florida.    The site is located near the intersection of US Hwy 19 and Ridge Road in West Pasco County. A full photo tour of the site is online here.

  KG4YZY-11 is a I-Gate that sends and receives RF on air APRS packets to and from  the Internet System (aprs-is) for the greater Tampa Bay area, it operates on the same antenna the -10 digipeater does.

  Estimated coverage map of the KG4YZY-11 Digipeater & IGate. Most mobile radios such as the Kenwood D700 need at least -80dBm of signal to reliably decode packets. This map should give you an idea of where our node covers best for mobile APRS usage (about 15 miles from the tower).  

  Current weather conditions via KG4YZY-11 at the site.