On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 17:44 -0500, Zachary Beougher wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for the responses from a few of you regarding my APRS question. I did a little more studying this afternoon, and I found out that if I am the first digi in the "chain" to repeat someone's packet, my call appears in their bubble and raw packets - BUT - if I am number 1 or 2 along the path, my call does not make it to the internet. I would assume this is because when I am the first digi to digipeat someone, it *generally* has 2 more hops to go (hence a better chance to get on the internet), but if I am number 2 or 3 in the chain, it only has 1 hop left - max, therefore not a big chance to make it to a gateway - is this a correct assumption of what is going on?
Zack KD8KSN
I don't know for certain, but that does sound reasonable. I still haven't quite got my head around the way that digipeating works in APRS. It seems pretty messy...
Gordon MM0YEQ