[aprssig] Using RELAY or WIDE1-1 in a path

Sat Sep 10 20:12:24 EDT 2005

Using WIDE1-1 in any position after the first will make all of the home stations that digipeat WIDE1-1 retransmit your packet and cause a very serious amount of QRM.  WIDE1-1 replaced RELAY because WIDE1-1 is works on older WIDEn-N digis and it works on newer fill-in WIDE1-1 digipeaters (the old RELAY-only digipeaters).  By using WIDEn-N (and SSn-N (that is the state abbreviation n-N)) it prevents dupe packets from clogging the APRS network.

Eric KF4OTN

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From: aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org on behalf of William McKeehan
Sent: Sat 10-Sep-05 19:51
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Subject: Re: [aprssig] Using RELAY or WIDE1-1 in a path

Maybe I'm overlooking it, but I do not see any reference to not using WIDE1-1
in any position beyond the first under the new paradigm in the referenced
document.

If I'm missing it, please point it out to me.

On Sat, September 10, 2005 7:34 pm, Mark White said:
> On Sat, 09/10/2005, 07:17PM, William McKeehan wrote:
>> Is there any "official" web site that explains why it is a bad idea to use
>> RELAY or WIDE1-1 in the path (except in the first position)? I have a few
>> users in my area that are doing it and I want to explain it to them, but
>> would
>> like to have some "official" backup.
>>
>
> That's a question that will be the cause of Flame War III...
>
> http://web.usna.navy.mil/~bruninga/aprs/fix14439.html
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