[aprssig] Incorrect Position, I think...

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 09:48:18PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <needhame1 at plateautel.net> flavor, containing:
> At 09:00 PM 6/27/2005, Tom Russo wrote:
> >On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 07:37:09PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron 
> >collision of the <kb0kqa at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> >> Looking on findu, it appears to be in NC.  Looking at the position of
> >> one of the digis in it's path (WX4GSO-9), it appears to be in findu.
> >>
> >> Looking at the packet you pasted, I believe it appears to have been
> >> taken off the APRS-IS and put back on RF by K5MJE-2.
> >
> >Yes, I've been seeing this one lately, too.  His posit is being reinjected
> >onto RF by K5MJE-2 and sent out over a WIDE3-3 path.
> >
> >I know both K5HAB and K5MJE, they're local in Albuquerque.  I don't know if
> >K5MJE-2's igate is doing this automagically, or if K5HAB is doing it
> >deliberately.  I'll contact them.
> 
>         Aww... It isn't a problem out HERE -- I just knew K5HAB is from 
> Albuquerque and thought something was wrong to make his position show up in 
> NC with a path of K5MJE-2,ELKMTN,FTSUMN,MELROZ,WIDE3*.  I wouldn't bother 
> them with it, unless it's causing problems in Albuquerque.

Well, beaconing a distant station from APRS-IS to WIDE3-3 seems unnecessary 
given how crowded central NM is.  AFAICT from Findu, K5HAB is just tooling 
along on vacation in NC using a WIDE,WIDE3-3 path, and somehow K5MJE is gating 
it back here.  I suspect a configuration issue at the K5MJE-2 igate rather than 
something that K5HAB is doing.

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Tom Russo    KM5VY     SAR502  DM64ux         http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
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