[Xastir] Change to RELAY digipeat function

Curt, WE7U archer at eskimo.com
Mon May 2 12:58:00 EDT 2005


On Mon, 2 May 2005, Tom Robson, ve7did wrote:

> On April 6, 2005 10:35 pm, Curt Mills wrote:
> > The relay digipeat function has been changed.  It now digipeats with
> > callsign substitution for RELAY and for WIDE1-1, as per the latest
> > recommendations that were discussed on the APRSSIG mailing list
> > recently.
>
> Just to clarify...
>
> Does the recent cvs respond to BOTH relay and wide1-1?

Yes.


> Recent info in the Pacific NorthWest indicates RELAY will be gone.
> quote > "RELAY is history. It will no longer be supported in the new settings
> for home stations or digipeaters. The replacement is WIDE1-1"

Problem is, Xastir gets used world-wide, and there's no indication
yet that anyone except U.S. and Canada are switching.  It'll be a
while before those two countries are fully switched over.  Better to
leave RELAY in there for a while.

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