[aprssig] CQ FD shame on you

[Stephen H. Smith]

The Bland Ranch wrote:
>
> I mentioned I put up a WIDE1-1 digi using UIDIGI to help get us out of the
> voerage hole. It was repeating my packets  that I sent just fine. I am
> wondering if there isn't something I missed so that it would repeat the packets
> destined FOR me. I THINK the IGate was N6ZW-3. At any rate, I did NOT see my
> return packets even in monitor mode, from any digi, though I saw the ones I
> sent bouncing around.
>
> I welcome any comment on UIDIGI config that may be impacting this. I sure want
> this to work.
>
>   
 Were you able to hear any digis other than your own, down in your hole?  

Unless the returning station could hit YOUR digi directly (i.e. not 
through another WIDE2-n  first), a WIDE1-1  will never work on the 
reverse path if there is more than one digi hop.      WIDE1-1 only works 
for the first hop of a packet path.  

If another station was far enough away that he heard your transmission 
via a second digi hop (i.e. after being repeated first by your digi, and 
then by a WIDE2-n permanent wide-coverage digi), then his reply would go 
through the WIDE2-n first, using up the first hop. Since your digi won't 
respond to anything BUT WIDE1-1, it would then ignore the WIDE2-n second 
hop in the path, and you wouldn't hear anything.  

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