[Xastir] path question

[Liz]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 08:34:51 -0700 (PDT)
"Curt, WE7U" <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Thank you very much, and especially for relating it to IP, since
> > I'm a lot more comfortable with that.
> >
> > So how does the path work when you use it in the Igate -> RF Path
> > section of the TNC interface config in Xastir?
> >
> > Mine is set up as WIDE2-1. What effect would changing that to
> > WIDE2-2 have?  
> 
> Would change to two hops via mountaintops only for igate traffic
> heading from your system to RF.
> 
> Right now you're going out one hop via mountaintops.

The use of "mountaintops" isn't really accurate - I live on the largest
flattest plain on planet Earth, and even without mountaintops we share
our APRS signals!
Locally we think of them as wide area digipeaters as opposed to local
digipeaters.

The WIDE1-1,WIDE2-2 type of transmit and digipeat instruction doesn't
worry whether your digipeaters are in high spots or a low spots, it
just decrements with each transmission.

And if you think that low altitude 2m digipeaters don't give long
distance, the longest distance I have noted for an incoming packet came
from Albany, Western Australia through 3 hops to my iGate in the NSW
Riverina. 
2018-03-11 17:40:47.239 VK2XSE-1  R
VK6RAL-3>APN383,VK5RAC-1*,VK5RSE-1*,WIDE2*:!3501.46S/11753.67E#PHG5530/
SEG - www.hamradio.org.au
That was about 2,700km

Liz
VK2XSE