[aprssig] Digi's Still Using Relay When Should Be Using Bob's New Format

[Bruce W. Martin]

There are plenty of APRS digipeaters that were setup with mostly  
commercial gear and the owners haven't had a need to go to the site  
in years. Someday something will break or they will finally take a  
vacation to the mountains and they may reprogram their digis. I  
suspect that some digi owners have moved on to other interests, and  
don't even know that the paradigm has changed.

Bruce

On Jan 25, 2007, at 10:11 PM, Richard N. Piper IV wrote:

> First off I know the subject is long, but we still have Digi's that  
> are using RELAY when they should be using Bob's New Format for  
> APRS. I noticed a station that for some reason has it's settings  
> set to Wide/Relay/Trace as noted in it's becon comment (Station is  
> LTRock) and in the becon coment it says that callsign is K5SCD.
>
> I don't live close the AK and am hering this staion in MO
> The Digi path is N5HU,KA4BNI-3,KC9FIQ-7,WIDE3 (3 or more hops)
> Ok I in Missouri live in a "Rural Area" and have my station set up  
> 2 WIDE3-3 but I thought that Relay was not to be used on 144.39  
> APRS anymore.
>
> KC0RNP
> Richard N. Piper IV




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