[aprssig] RADIO paths in APRS Servers

[Randy Love]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Andrew Rich
(Home)<vk4tec at tech-software.net> wrote:
> The problem is , unless call sub is ON , you dont know
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Andrew Rich
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason KG4WSV" <kg4wsv at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, August 08, 2009 8:51 AM
>> Subject: Re: [aprssig] RADIO paths in APRS Servers
>>
>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Andrew Rich
>>> (Home)<vk4tec at tech-software.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Here is one for you, who or what is "WIDE2" ?
>>>

My guess is that the station sent the packet out with a path of WIDE2-1.
VK4RSR-3 digi'd it, decremented WIDE2 to 0 and sent it as WIDE2* to
show the path is used up.

The big clue here is in the payload which tells us VK4UN-1 is a VHF
Igate & Digipeater {UIV32}.
This digi op is seemingly using the proper WIDE2-1 path for his digi,
thus we can be fairly certain that the VK4RSR-3 is the station that
heard and repeated this packet. Since there were no more hops left in
the path, this makes this appear as if a station called WIDE2
transmitted the packet, when no such thing may have actually happened.

Randy
WF5X