[aprssig] New Mexico and Arizona... New n-N Paradigm

[Earl Needham]

At 10:15 AM 1/19/2005, J. Gary Bender, WS5N wrote:
>BTW, a way to test for how much "n-N" you need from a location to reach an 
>IGate
>is to send yourself a couple email messages.  Watch for a "My Message" 
>echo so
>you know a digi saw you, and then wait for an ACK.  Do that a couple times at
>different path settings.  No ACK indicates you may need to increase the "N".

         Which brings up another question --

         Do we want to stay with WIDEn-N when we are in our regular area, 
or do we want to use directed paths?  I'm currently using a path of

         APRS,KA5B,MELROZ,CAPTAN,TRACE

         but I can certainly shorten it down some if that's what the group 
wants.

         7 3
         Earl


Earl Needham, KD5XB, Clovis, New Mexico DM84jk
http://kd5xb-2.no-ip.info