[aprssig] TEMPn-N and callsign digipeating

[Wes johnston]

I was not advocating running WIDE1-1 all the time on a d700... you are 
correct, we do not want bunches of them running around.... worse, people who 
set and forget.  So save a PM specifically for digipeating with UIDIGI set 
to WIDE1-1, otherwise don't use it.  Set your normal drive time tracker PM 
so that UIDIGI is off.  The cool thing about the d700 is that 1) you can 
change most settings on the fly w/o a PC, 2)with the "auto pm store" set 
off, you can make changes to the radio and the radio resets back to normal 
on the next power up.  The trick is to get folks with a d700 to make sure 
that thier default profile does not containUIDIGI WIDE1-1.  They can change 
it as needed, and it goes away the next time they shut the radio off.  This 
just seems so much easier than having to reprogram radios and/or trackers 
with a PC when we need them most.

Wes

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J. Gary Bender, WS5N" <WS5N at mindspring.com>
To: "TAPR APRS Mailing List" <aprssig at lists.tapr.org>
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: [aprssig] TEMPn-N and callsign digipeating


The problem with putting WIDE1-1 in a MOBILE D700 UIDIGI list is that it 
will always be digipeating WIDE1-1, even during normal non-event times. 
Generally speaking, we don't want a bunch of fill-in digis wandering around 
town.  The TEMPn alias will only activate when someone intentionally decides 
they need it.
--
Gary, WS5N

On Mon, 29 May 2006 11:32:49 -0500, wa7nwp at jnos.org wrote:
>
>> Plan B)
>> Since the new WIDEn-n system says that the preferred path for
>> trackers is WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1 or WIDE1-1,WIDE2-2, why not simply
>> set the UIDIGI on a d700
>> that will be used as an emergency digipeater to WIDE1-1? You can
>> do that with the front panel, no pc required. And since the
>> trackers are already programed to use wide1-1 as the first hop,
>> there is no need for a PC to reconfigure them either. Just park
>> a d700 on a hill with UIDIGI set to WIDE1-1 on 144.99 and adjust
>> the TX offset in the trackers. The disadvantage of this is that
>> the emergency digipeater won't digipeat any packets in from more
>> than one hop, but then again, we're not looking for that.
>>
>
> That's the "cafe digi" syndrome. We've often met and played radio
> in cafes. Getting packets out via a mobile digi has been easy.
> Getting them back in to a marginal portable station has been very
> problematic. We get out but don't hear the replies.
>
> My solution - add WIDE2-1 to the TEMP1-1 and WIDE1-1 (and mycall)
> settings of UIDIGI. That'll bring in some of the packets from the
> wide area nodes and since it's already the end-gate of the packet
> path, it won't affect the network routing outside of a few extra
> packets. Fortunately it's very easy to change the UIDIGI setting
> of a D700 (or set up a separate PM for it) so this can be quickly
> turned on and off.
>
> More Packets!
>
> Bill - WA7NWP
>
>
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