[aprssig] digipeter determination

[David John Walsh]

Forgive my ignorance but what is a SUPERLAN?

Thanks
David
On 6 Jan 2005, at 22:28, William McKeehan wrote:

> I've been following the discussion lately and I have come up with a 
> question.
>
> If I were about to setup a digipeter, what would the criteria for 
> determining
> what type of digipeter I should put up?
>
> Here's my logic and the criteria that I have arrived. Tell me where I 
> am wrong
> in mylogic.
>
> To be a RELAY digipeter, you need to be able to hear and be heard by 
> one (and
> preferably only one) WIDE digipeter, zero other RELAY digipeters and 
> less than
> 20 stations direct and 1 or more stations directly that you do not hear
> digipeted via your local WIDE (i.e., you hear one of the WIDE's 
> blindspots).
> If the WIDE that you can hear can hear everything that you hear, then 
> a RELAY
> in this area would only generate QRM, right?
>
> To be a WIDE (or ANYn-n) digipeter, you need to be able to hear and be 
> heard
> by two or more (no more than 4) other WIDE digipeters and less than 20
> stations direct or 40 stations direct and via RELAY.
>
> To be a SUPERLAN digipeter, you need to hear 2 or more WIDE digipeters.
>
> To be an I-Gate, you need to hear and be heard by one or more WIDE or 
> SUPERLAN
> digipeters.
>
> What are your thoughts on the above criteria?
>
> -- 
> William McKeehan
> KI4HDU
> Internet: mckeehan at mckeehan.homeip.net
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