[Xastir] Question about TNC UnProto Paths.

[James Washer]

The reason I wanted to turn off digi/relay is that I'm in a valley completely ringed by HIGH moutains, and there are 3 mountain top digi's that provide near perfect coverage. I review of my TNC logs shows that every signal I here is already being digi'd by these moutain top digi's.. Seems like I'm just wasting bandwidth to relay in this location. 

 - jim

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 19:31:12 -0800
<BobDonnell at arkalmus.com> wrote:

> 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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