[aprssig] RE: Not Receiving Messages from APRS-IS (Pete LoveallAE5PL Lists)
Keith VE7GDH
ve7gdh at rac.ca
Mon May 19 18:28:25 EDT 2008
Jeff N0JUH wrote...
> When an igate send a message to RF, I'm sure it must signal other
> igates not to send that message anymore. But I would think that it
> would wait for an ack before it did that.
That's not the way it works. Messages that make it to theh APRS-IS are
available to all IGates. It i the IGate that must be properly programmed
to send messages to local stations, and it is the IGate operator that
determines what is local... i.e. heard direct, heard via 1 hop, heard
via 2 hops etc. Conceivably, two adjacent IGates could be gating traffic
to the same mobile station.
> If an IGATE sends a message to RF, can I track that event on findu et
> al?
I don't believe so. You would have to look at raw data from the
originating station and from the destination station to look at the sent
message or at the acks.
> ...but I also have problems getting acks from EMAIL...
For messages sent to EMAIL, you would need to make it to an IGate to be
successful.
> ...If anyone has the time, please send a message to N0JUH-1...
I just sent a message. It looks like you uare two hops away from an
IGate. Success will depend on whether one or more IGates consider you
are local, and upon conditions / propagation / packet collisions. I
didn't get an ACK, so I'll try a few more times.
You could contact the nearest IGate operators and ask them if they gate
traffic to local stations (as they should!!!!!!) and what they consider
local... i.e. direct, 1 hop, 2 hops etc.
73 es cul - Keith VE7GDH
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