[aprssig] RADIO paths in APRS Servers

[Andrew Rich (Home)]

But doesn't the star indicate who we heard the packet from ?


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Andrew Rich
Amateur Radio Callsign VK4TEC
email: vk4tec at tech-software.net
web: www.tech-software.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Randy Love" <rlove31 at gmail.com>
To: "Andrew Rich (Home)" <vk4tec at tech-software.net>; "TAPR APRS Mailing 
List" <aprssig at tapr.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 08, 2009 11:25 PM
Subject: Re: [aprssig] RADIO paths in APRS Servers


> 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


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