[aprssig] Old Digi_Ned Refurb

[Robert Bruninga]

>> Well, the second biggest load on the APRS network 
>> prior to the New-N paradigm was the flooding of 
>> the network with too many digipeater position 
>> reports over too large an area too often. 
>> Switching to proportional pathing to reduce the 
>> rate at greater hops was a real reduction in QRM.
> 
> Doesn't that make the local repeater initiative a 
> big problem, then, since it uses the digi's slots 
> that could otherwise be used for proportional pathing?

No, the KPS-3+ has 4 slots for the proportional pathing of the
digi's own posit and configuration beacon.  That leaves the
BText for the local info repeater object.  And since the object
is originated inside the digi, which can hear the channel fully
from its location, then this local info object will not collide
with any other local packet.

WB4APR, Bob