[aprssig] IGate Registering for ANSRVR (Messaging failures)

[Pete Loveall AE5PL Lists]

Why not configure your home station for direct-only bidirectional and then you can support messaging instead of only sometimes being able to communicate reliably?

Whoever came up with the "receive-only" IGate as a good thing did not think through that APRS is a -communications- protocol, not a tracking protocol and they did not fully understand the potential for breaking the communication mechanisms that APRS-IS depends on.

73,

Pete Loveall AE5PL
pete at ae5pl dot net

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Best [mailto:anthonybest at bestanthony.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2016 11:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [aprssig] IGate Registering for ANSRVR (Messaging failures)
> 
> I have heard multiple times that you should configure your home station IGate
> as receive-only. However I've found that the "receive-only" stations are often
> the only stations able to hear me, the IGates on the mountain tops almost never
> hear my HT since they have such wide coverage.
> 
> Anthony k7tft