transmitting packets at a high rate

John M

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Nov 7, 2025, 12:49:08 AM (yesterday) Nov 7

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Hello everybody,

I will get crazy with this topic and I would like to ask for help to see what I am doing wrong.

My callsign is EB2BRA.

My car has a T_beam board as tracker as EB2BRA-7.

Firmware from CA2RXU 2025-08-11.

The station is configure with smartbeacon ( as car ).

Well, this is the message I can see in APRS.fi

Packet rate:
20 seconds between packets on average during 956 seconds.
This station is transmitting packets at a high rate, which can cause congestion in the APRS network.

Why ? I don't what more it's neccesary to configure.

Is there anybody could help me with this issue ?

Best regards.

Geoff Mather - g8dhe

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Nov 7, 2025, 4:29:37 AM (yesterday) Nov 7

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Change the configuration of the tracking software to send packets less frequently, say once a minute or once every 5 minutes. Some software allows setting Max and Min time intervals and also at different speeds.

Ricardo Guzman

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Nov 7, 2025, 7:07:13 AM (yesterday) Nov 7

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I've soon to get into adding more configuration to the tracker smartBeacon values of the firmware. I have to make them a little more "slow" more into the Kenwood values for safety.

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