[Xastir] Smart RELAY digipeating

[BDonnell at ar-northwest.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Curt, WE7U [mailto:archer at eskimo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 9:00 AM
> To: Tapio Sokura
> Cc: xastir at xastir.org
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Smart RELAY digipeating
> 
> 
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Tapio Sokura wrote:
> 
> > Still I'm a bit sceptical about this 
> everyone-transmits-at-the-same-time
> > approach when there are stations involved that don't use 
> the digipeating
> > functions of a conventional TNC. I have mine in KISS mode 
> so some delay
> > is added from the serial communications (both ways) and from the
> > processing occurring on the computer. When the packet gets 
> back to the
> > TNC from the computer to be digipeated, the channel is 
> probably already
> > occupied from the digipeats by other stations. But I'm not saying it
> > can't work..
> 
> Understand.  You'd have to tweak your KISS settings so that station
> was much more agressive on channel.  That'd be fine for igating but
> not for normal operation.

When using serial KISS mode, Xastir could make those TNC settings changes interactively.  Perhaps the easiest would be to set the TNC to full-duplex mode - that should assure a collision-rich environment...

73, Bob, KD7NM

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