[aprssig] New WIDEn-N explaination please

[Richard Montgomery]

Hey William,

Your correct in that there are 3 digi's before KA4TAR thare are setup 
incorrectly.Two dont have WIDE in the UITRACE slot. KA4TAR has WIDE in 
UITRACE correctly it seems.

First and foremost though is N4NEQ-2 is still responding to RELAY which 
is the first digi that this station sees most of the time.

This seems to be his raw packet heard by W4DTR-1 after a dumb RELAY 
digi'd his packet first.
K4WZ>SSSV7W,RELAY*,WIDE4-4,qAS,W4DTR-1:'p1zl 
-/>

If the digis were setup correctly then his packet would have looked like 
K4WZ>SSSV7W,DIGI1,DIGI2,KA4TAR*,WIDE4-1,qAR,WA4DSY:'p1zl 
-/>

Well I guess you wouldnt have seen him at all if they were ALL setup 
correctly as he is using RELAY.

So until the digi's between you and this station are updated, its going 
to be hard to tell where stations originate unless you look at findu.

Hope this helps,
Richard


William McKeehan wrote:
> There is a new local digi in my area that responds to WIDEn-N (KA4TAR). This
> is the first WIDEn-N digi that I can hear, so I'm learning about the new
> paradigm in the real world.
> 
> I've encountered a packet that I do not understand:
>      K4WZ>SSSV7W,KA4TAR*,WIDE4-1,qAR,WA4DSY:'p1zl 
-/>
> 
> K4WZ is about 150 miles away from KA4TAR, so I do not think KA4TAR is hearing
> K4WZ direct. And looking at the WIDE4-1, it looks like I'm hearing him on his
> 3rd hop.
> 
> However, looking at K4WZ's packets on the internet, it looks like K4WZ's path
> is SOMETHING,WIDE4-4 - that SOMETHING could be WIDE1-1 or RELAY. It looks to
> me like KA4TAR is removing everything in the path that has already been used.
> 
> I would expect to see something like this:
>      K4WZ>SSSV7W,N4NEQ-2*,KA4TAR*,qAR,WA4DSY:'p1zl 
-/>
> or
>      K4WZ>SSSV7W,N4NEQ-2*,KA4TAR*,WIDE4-3,qAR,WA4DSY:'p1zl 
-/>
> or even
>      K4WZ>SSSV7W,N4NEQ-2*,KA4TAR,WIDE4-1,qAR,WA4DSY:'p1zl 
-/>
> which I was thinking would indicate that some other stations are not
> but I was thinking that
>      K4WZ>SSSV7W,KA4TAR*,WIDE4-1,qAR,WA4DSY:'p1zl 
-/>
> would indicate that KA4TAR heard K4WZ direct and I'm hearing the packet from
> some other digi that has WIDE in UIFLOOD, not UITRACE.
> 
> Can someone explain why the path in this packet is showing what I see? Is
> there a setting that KA4TAR can have set in his KPC3 to cause this?
> 
> Just trying to understand...thanks!
> 

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