[aprssig] WIDEs

[Robbie - WA9INF]

Bob et all,

What happen a several months back with one hell of a long thread on why 
we have to get rid of WIDEs when using KPC3+ and not using callsign 
substitution and all?? Wasn't that the first start of the WIDEn-N drive 
and getting rid of WIDEs?

You guys get the average user out here so screwed up no wonder nothing 
is running right.. It is contradiction after contradiction. I have 
started using the delete key more and more because of this on and on 
confusion.

Robbie

Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Robert Bruninga wrote:
> 
> 
>>Curt, you dont understand callsign-substitution.
> 
> 
> Actually, it's not the callsign-substitution that is fuzzy here,
> it's what the digi does with the "digipeated" bits and the
> already-digipeated/substituted callsigns.
> 
> 
> 
>>Once a digi's own call shows up anywhere in the path,
>>it will not ever digipeat that packet again.  Period.
>>Thus, it will not ping-pong.
> 
> 
> I'm glad of that, but I didn't think that was the case.  As I
> understood it they ignored all but the first digipeater slot that
> didn't have the has-been-digipeated bit set.  In other words they
> never did a compare between any of those fields and the callsign of
> the digi.
> 
> 
> 
>>But it will digi other copies that went via other
>>digis before it got to it.  Yes, those are dupes, but
>>the only radiate outward.  They cannot come back
>>through this digi in "ping-pong" fashion.  Bob
> 
> 
> I believe I've seen it happen recently.  I think it was a kpc3 or
> kpc-3+ that did it.  I might be able to check through my logs at
> home to find an example of it on local RF.
> 
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