[aprssig] Newbie Path Question

Ron Tonneson ron.tonneson at gmail.com
Sat May 16 22:51:55 EDT 2009


Looking at aprs.fi it looks like your closest digipeater is KB8CVP-7 
about 45 miles away and the nearest igate is N3WWN-3 about 91 miles 
away.  Both are a long ways for an HT power level on packet.  You should 
not use wide2-1 and wide2-2 together, it should be wide1-1,wide2-2

Ron - K0QVF

Josh Smith wrote:
> I reconfigured my rig as specified by you all and in the docs and my
> packets never make it anywhere.  However if I reconfigure my path to
> be relay,wide2-1,wide2-2 every thing seems to work.  Does this
> indicate that the only digipeater I can hit from here is still using
> the obsoleted configuration?
>
> Thanks,
> Josh Smith
> KD8HRX
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> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Ron Tonneson <ron.tonneson at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Josh,
>>
>> Glad to help.  The D7 came out before the change that dropped the use of
>> RELAY and Kenwood has never updated the manual.  I use my D7 on my bicycle
>> with a Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx.
>>
>> Ron - K0QVF
>>
>> Josh Smith wrote:
>>     
>>> John,
>>> Ron,
>>> Thanks for the quick replies and the links to the info. The
>>> documentation that came with my radio doesn't do a very good job
>>> explaining the path setting and i guess my google-fu wasn't up to par
>>> at finding the information you all linked to  I'll  read the links and
>>> reconfigure my ht accordingly.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Josh Smith
>>> KD8HRX
>>>
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>>> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 9:27 PM, John Habbinga <kc5zrq at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> 1) RELAY, WIDE and TRACE are obsolete.
>>>>
>>>> 2) Use WIDE2-2 for fixed stations.
>>>>
>>>> 3) Use WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1 or WIDE1-1,WIDE2-2 for mobiles.
>>>>
>>>> See http://aprs.org/fix14439.html for more information.
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