[aprssig] SSID on to-call?

Andre v Schaijk aprs at pe1rdw.demon.nl
Sat Feb 5 10:13:55 EST 2011


Op 4-2-2011 23:38, Jason KG4WSV schreef:
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)
> <ldeffenb at homeside.to>  wrote:
>> APRS101.PDF is your friend for questions like this.  From page 16 (26 in
>> acrobat):
>>
>> The SSID field in the Destination Address (i.e. in the 7th address byte) is
>> encoded as follows:
>> APRS Digipeater Paths in Destination Address SSID
>> SSID Path SSID Path
>> -0 Use VIA path -8 North path
>> -1 WIDE1-1 -9 South path
>> -2 WIDE2-2 -10 East path
>> -3 WIDE3-3 -11 West path
>> -4 WIDE4-4 -12 North path + WIDE
>> -5 WIDE5-5 -13 South path + WIDE
>> -6 WIDE6-6 -14 East path + WIDE
>> -7 WIDE7-7 -15 West path + WIDE
> Ah, I'd seen that, once upon a time, but forgotten about it.  Thanks.
>
>> Now, if there's any digipeaters out there that actually have multiple
>> antennas with directionality is one question and whether the software
>> driving said multi-directional digis is actually sensitive to these -SSIDs
>> is yet another question...
> A more relevant question may be does any digi support the N-hop path
> implied by the first 8 SSIDs?
>
> -Jason
> kg4wsv
>
>
DigiNed has always been able to do that without a problem, both use 
multiple attena, directional paths and translating -n to wideN-n
that would also solve the tracabilety problem and compatabilety problem

Andre PE1RDW




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