[aprssig] ISS Digipeater Alias?

[Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)]

This may not be the best place to ask this, so if not, please tell me a 
more appropriate list...

 From http://aprs.org/iss-faq.html: 

*ISS AND OTHER UI DIGIPEATERS IN SPACE* SATELLITE 	DWNLNK 	UPLINK 
DIGI-PATH (choose one) 	DESCRIPTION
ISS 	145.825 	145.825 	ARISS | APRSAT | WIDE 	Adding an optional 
SGATE,WIDE on your path allows your
PCSAT-1 	145.825 	145.828 	ARISS | APRSAT | WIDEn-N 	packet to be gated 
to the FINDU system more easily.
ANDE 	145.825 	145.825 	ARISS | APRSAT | WIDEn-N 	Sleeps between users. 
Wakes for a minute.
GO32 	435.225 	145.850 	4XTECH 	Use 145.93 uplink for all D7 and D700's



Is the ISS really responding to a path alias of WIDE?  Or is this 
obsolete (page last updated Jan 30, 2009) information?

I know that it responds to ARISS, but does it also digipeat on it's own 
(RS0ISS-4) callsign?

And finally, based on the packets I've seen from it, it is doing alias 
substitution rather than callsign insertion.  Can someone who knows the 
facts confirm or deny that observation?

Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - An ISS-worker wannabe

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