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

[Rodney Padmore]

Could you clarify a very basic concept for me and hopefully others re the 
whole proto path subject: If a transmission with RELAY,WIDE goes out and a 
reciever is only set up to recieve WIDE, will it ignore the transmission 
completely because WIDE is not the first term or will it accept it because 
WIDE is in there somewhere, i.e. in the second place in the sequence? Hope 
this is better that 'clear as mud', Thnx es 73 de Rod,VE1BSK.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Bruninga" <bruninga at usna.edu>
To: <aprssig at lists.tapr.org>; <ajfarmer at spenet.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 10:22 AM
Subject: RE: [aprssig] New Mexico and Arizona... New n-N Paradigm


> >I have a good grasp on the new N-N Paradigm, but the
>>status of "RELAY" still confuses me.  The universal path
>>is now WIDE2-2.  You just said that current "fill in" RELAY-only
>>digi's should now support *BOTH* aliases of RELAY *AND*
>>WIDE2-2.  Why then is RELAY still needed as an alias?
>
> Because without it, "we can't get there from here"...
>
> Knowing how lethargic the APRS network and users are, it
> will take years for some people to change their mobile tracker
> paths.  Thus we must always support RELAY.  But starting
> now, we want to "encourage" the use of WIDE2-2 and support
> of same...
>
>>Wouldn't fill in digi's be either RELAY or WIDE2-2 but not both?
>> Or are we keeping RELAY to be backwards compatible to
>>people still using RELAY,WIDE?
>
> Yes, that is it exactly...  RELAY will always be there, but
> we want to "encourage" the use of WIDE2-2 as being
> the most efficient.
> Bob
>
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