[aprssig] In a nutshell?

[Steve]

On Jan 6, 2005, at 1:06 PM, Sean Jewett wrote:

>   It's just the whole computer in a
> remote area that's keeping me from thinking digined is the best thing
> since sliced bread (it is darn close though).

I've got two computers sitting at remote sites running Digined.  Other 
then a harddrive crash I haven't had any problems.  I took a boot 
floppy with digined back to the site and ran the digi from it.

You can support any number of the LANOFTHEWEEKn-n schemes people think 
up.  You can also keep your WIDEn-n and TRACEn-n while limiting the 
amount of hops you support.  Cutting our digi's back to WIDE3-3 or less 
cut down on the number of stations we were seeing tremendously.  The 
ARES folks have a couple of special LANn-n unproto's they can use to 
get around the 3 hop limit.

By keeping WIDEn-n support for reasonable lengths, we don't penalize 
those people who are network friendly.  They don't wake up one morning 
wondering why they can't get out anymore using a simple WIDE2-2.

The dupe algorithm helps to stop the ping ponging of people still using 
WIDE, WIDE, WIDE.

If user education doesn't work (we've got some people who like to gate 
all Ontario traffic to rf), then Digined supports budlisting.  
Budlisting one mobile who beacons multiple GPS strings every 30 seconds 
(even when parked) opened things up.

If your adventurous, you can even exit Digined remotely and run a 
TCP/IP program to update the software remotely.

Give it a try someday.  I'm sure you'll be pleasantly surprised.
--
Steve <s.jones at rogers.com>