[aprssig] How to detect silent/stealth digis/Igates?

[Heikki Hannikainen]

On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, Andrew P.  wrote:

> How can one detect if a 'stealth' (non-beaconing) digi is working? I 
> just got assigned to keep track of my county ARES group's digipeaters, 
> and I'd like to find a quick way to test them for operation without 
> having to do site visits.

Many of them will probably digipeat packets addressed to their configured 
callsigns. If you know their callsign-SSID pairs, you could actively send 
a few packets through each digipeater every now and them.

   - Hessu