[aprssig] Final version of New n-N aradigm

[Dave Sparks]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Bruninga" <bruninga at usna.edu>
To: <aprssig at lists.tapr.org>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 6:04 PM
Subject: [aprssig] Final version of New n-N aradigm


> The FINAL draft version of the New n-N Paradigm is now posted
> along with a table of settings for digi sysops of KPC-3+'s.
>
> I spent all day revising all my  web pages to make everything
> hang together and consistent.  I think it solves most problems
> and takes into account everyone's comments.
>
> - It encourages single DIGI paths of WIDEn-N (mostly 2-2)
> - this is because a single VIA WIDEn-N is dupeless
> - It no longer encourages WIDE,WIDEn-N or RELAY,WIDEn-N
>  because they generate lots of dupes
> - It makes WIDE2-2 work everywhere (even in WIDE-only digis)
> - It has a one-hop enforcement mechanism for places like LA
> - it has a simple set of rules for everyone everywhere.
> - It enforces elimination of WIDE5-5. -6 and 7-7 everywhere.
>
> and all of this can be done with a KPC-3+ in most cases.
> When you have time, re-read all of my web pages and links.
>
> New N:     http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/fix14439.html
> Fixing LA:  http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/fixingLA.html
>
> Let me know of any conflicts.
>
> Thanks
> Bob

Hi Bob,

This new concept would need to be disseminated through the commonly read 
publications on the subject.  For example, Stan Horzepa wrote in the APRS 
book published by the ARRL (to which you wrote the foreward) "Any fixed APRS 
station can serve as an APRS digipeater and is encouraged to do so in order 
to fill in the wide expanses of the APRS network."  Since most potential 
digipeaters would not meet the criteria to sport a WIDE alias, most would be 
RELAYs.  Doesn't this new concept eliminate the usefulness of RELAYs, at 
least in the L.A. basin where I live -- Riverside, to be precise?

A "search and find/destroy" mission to eliminate the very stations who 
THOUGHT they were doing a good thing (because it was recommended in an ARRL 
book) could be a P.R. nightmare.  Just look at the recent proposal by one 
repeater coordinator to require tone PL on all coordinated repeaters --a 
proposal soon withdrawn.  It wasn't such a bad idea, IMO, but look how it 
turned out.

I guess it boils down to one question:  Assuming that a ham isn't 
geographically situated to become "BIG3?" WIDE,  how can he contribute to 
the betterment of the APRS community with his station?

Dave Sparks, KD6PDZ