[Xastir] Question about TNC UnProto Paths.

[BobDonnell at arkalmus.com]

Hi James,

Generally speaking, unless there is another fixed station near you
that's acting as a RELAY digipeater, you should enable digipeating and
set MYALIAS to RELAY.  It's intended to help assure that packets from
APRS mobiles that pass near your QTH are passed along to the high-level
digipeaters.  This is because mobile stations generally have a lot of
packets lost because their varying signal strengths as they move results
in a much lower probability of being copied error-free (and hence
digipeated) than do fixed stations.  If there's an APRSer within a mile
or two of you that has an equivalent or better station, leave
digipeating on and set MYALIAS to RELAY.  However if you're in Southern
California, disregard all of this - they're doing things differently.
Look to the local folk for how to get things set up.  Since you said
you're the first igate in the area, I doubt you're in SoCal though!

Hope that helps!

73, Bob, KD7NM

>-----Original Message-----
>From: xastir-bounces at xastir.org [mailto:xastir-bounces at xastir.org]On
>Behalf Of James Washer
>Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 3:34 PM
>To: xastir at xastir.org
>Subject: [Xastir] Question about TNC UnProto Paths.
>
>
>As I mentioned in my previous email, I'm now iGating as there 
>are no other iGates in the area.
>
>However, I don't think I should be digi-peating, as there are 
>2 or 3 VERY HIGH digi's surrounding the area ( 9000 to 11000 
>feet elevation, valley floor is 4500 ft).
>
>So.. How do I config my TNC interface?  I'm afraid the TNC 
>(KPC3+) is going to be digipeating on it's own, unless I run 
>in KISS mode or something like that ( If this is way off mark, 
>let me know.. like I said, I'm just starting with this ).
>
>Will setting the UnProto paths for the interface do anything 
>useful with respect to my desire to not digipeat? I suspect not... 
>
>
> - jim
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