[Xastir] To many repeats?

[Tom Russo]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 09:04:56AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <earl_needham at yahoo.com> flavor, containing:
> At 09:00 2/24/2008, William McKeehan wrote:
>> Try View- Incoming Data, that will show you what packets are sent/received in
>> Xastir.
> 
>         That did it, and I got my answer immediately!  Out here, WIDE1-1 is 
> about as bad as RELAY used to be!

WIDE1-1 is as bad as RELAY here in NM, too --- turns out that old versions
of KPC-3 firmware (version 8.2) have a bug that makes it necessary to set 
WIDE1-1 as the MYALIAS to handle packets like WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1.  Without 
setting it in MYALIAS, as I understand it, is that the digi doesn't set the 
"last digipeated" bit properly.  (e.g. "WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1" digipeated by
SANDIA without the myalias would come out as "SANDIA*,WIDE1,WIDE2-1" instead 
of "SANDIA,WIDE1*,WIDE2-1" and the packet stops getting digied after that.  
There was a brief thread on APRSSIG on it and I discussed it with the local 
digi guru when I noticed the same problem here -- without replacing the TNC on 
the digi with a newer model, there's no way around it.

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