[aprssig] APRS on RF?

[Dennis Hudson]

At the moment this is a slightly flawed path because of the wide spread 
use of uidigi which has a bug. <local>,WIDE2-1 acts like 
<local>,WIDE2-2 =3 hops(17 copies by Bob B's matrix) which is too many 
hops in this area.

I don't think <local>,WIDE produces any dupes as there should not be 
any more digis after the second hop. If all the digis are setup with 
proper dwait/ppersist then it should propagate out to the 4 digis 
surrounding the area. 2 hops in this area exceeds the Aloha circle.

The ultimate answer is to fix uidigi but I haven't seen any action on 
the uidigi list about the change. We will jump right on it when it does 
come. At least it's a low cost upgrade (burn new proms).

-Dennis

On Apr 14, 2005, at 9:05 AM, Wes Johnston wrote:

> Can you recommend <DIRECT / YourLocalDigiCallsign>,WIDE2-1 ?  This will
> fall more in line with the national recommendation of WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1 .
> I realize that each area is different, but this may serve to be more
> similar to everything else and help avoid confusion for the causual 
> readers.
>
> Wes
>
> Dennis Hudson wrote:
>
>> We recommend <DIRECT>,WIDE (2 hops) here. Our Aloha circle is
>> approximately 75 miles. I don't see how Bob's plan effects us. It
>> really doesn't make sense to me as a home station should use their
>> local digi + one hop.

--
Dennis Hudson, N2LBT
Sysop APRSALY
http://n2lbt.com:14501
Albany, NY