[aprssig] I almost understand WIDEn-N
Bob Bruninga
bruninga at usna.edu
Sat May 26 23:21:15 EDT 2007
> I think I get it, basically the little n doesn't
> really do anything.
When I first came up with WIDE-N in 1994, there was no little "n". But when we actually got around to implementing it for real for the first time, it was immediately obvious that we had to have a way of knowing how the packet started, since all packets would arrive as WIDE-0.
So we added the little "n" so each packet would show how many hops it had been. It is deceiving to make "n" different from "N", and bad amateur practice.
Bob, WB4APR
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