[Xastir] Setting up unproto paths in the UK

[John Ronan]

M0CYP has a recommendation here

http://www.apritch.myby.co.uk/uiview_neweu.htm

Which we don't support here in Ireland, as we have WIDEN-N support in  
all our Working Digis (Having a spot of bad weather at the moment  
that's playing havoc with sites etc). Also, I don't know if that is  
what is 'officially' recommended in the UK.

And, to be honest, with lift conditions I've seen all sorts of  
wonderful path combinations. So I couldn't even guess what is even  
most used.

Regards
de John
EI7IG



On 6 Dec 2006, at 14:51, James Ewen wrote:

> On 12/6/06, Dave h <davekh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> There seems a lot of info about but has anyone got some advice for  
>> a UK
>> station please.
>> I have looked around for information, but there's such a mixture of
>> out-of-date, innapropriate to locality and other data about that  
>> knowing
>> what to set the Unproto too isn't clear.
>> So - for a UK user fixed station, with a local digi - what would  
>> people
>> suggest I change, if anything?
>
> Perhaps a little more info about what is currently supported in the UK
> would help.
>
>> From your info, can I assume RELAY, TRACEn-N and named stations  
>> are supported?
>
> If so, and the UK network is implemented in a way that is similar to
> the North American network, then you should not need to use RELAY in a
> fixed station.
>
> In North America, the APRS network consists of fixed high level
> digipeater that support all current aliases. If an area requires a
> fill-in digi to help low powered handheld or mobile stations to get to
> the high level digis, then a home fill-in station is added. This used
> to by RELAY in North America, but is now using the WIDE1-1 alias to
> reduce ping-ponging packets.
>
> We have an informal group throughout the Pacific Northwest, and
> western Canada called NWAPRS www.nwaprs.info, where we discuss items
> like this, as well as work at keeping up to date on the optimal
> settings for APRS users and infrastructure.
>
> Looking at packets from around the UK, it is difficult to know what is
> happening around there... Long paths, and misconfigured stations seem
> to abound. Having a group like the NWAPRS group allows us to keep in
> touch, and try to help people get optimal use out of the APRS network.
> We also have a reflector that we use to keep in touch. Is there such a
> group in the UK?
>
> James
> VE6SRV
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