[aprssig] Question about 'H-bit' handling and WIDEn-N paths

Curt, WE7U archer at eskimo.com
Fri Jan 28 11:54:13 EST 2005


On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, AE5PL Lists wrote:

> Good question.  Dupe check for APRS should be based on callsign-SSID,
> unproto (no SSID), and the I-field.  The via path should be ignored as
> this changes with digipeating (as you noted).  The SSID on the unproto
> is ignored because this could be changed SSID routing.  The unproto
> should be part of the CRC because it is used as data in APRS (Mic-E, for
> example).

Excellent.

What he said.  ;-)

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