[Xastir] Gating WX from IP to RF - THE SOLUTION

[Mike Long (N3QD)]

Hmm, see what you're saying.  I didn't think about dupes on the net.   
Okay, station call is now N3QDIGATE to avoid dupes.  BTW, that just  
fits in the callsign block, gotta love the 1X2 / 2X1 calls!  :o)

Thanks!
Mike (N3QD)

On Dec 4, 2007, at 12:58 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Mike Long (N3QD) wrote:
>
>> I changed my
>> station call to IGATE.  I added my callsign and a short description
>> to the comment, and changed the beacon interval to 10 minutes to stay
>> legal.
>
> That sounds fine on the surface, and is probably ok for local RF,
> but on the INET side that'll be duplicated by somebody else later
> down the road.
>
> It should still work if you chang your callsign to something like
> "N3QD99"...   That's unlikely to be duplicated and you can still do
> the callsign-in-the-comments thing and TX every 9.9 minutes or so on
> RF.  I'd avoid numbers that might be confused with letters at first
> glance, like '0' or '1'.
>
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