[aprssig] Viscous digipeating

[Scott Miller]

Been kicking this idea around for a while on the Tracker2 mailing list. 
  I hadn't decided exactly how I wanted to do the delay, but it 
shouldn't add a lot of code.

Scott
N1VG

Pentti Gronlund wrote:
> Gentlemen,
> 
> There is a solution for all problems concerning fill-in and airborne
> digipeaters, called "viscous digipeating".
> 
> Make the fill-in digipeater listen to the frequency for a couple of 
> seconds before digipeating. Then digipeat, if the packet hasn't been
> heard digipeated by another station.
> 
> Simple, efficient, needs just some lines of code and some RAM space.
> You can get rid of the infamous WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1 hacks and survive even 
> in Dayton.   
> 
> No rights reserved,
> 
> Benjamin OH3BK