[aprssig] IGate Registering for ANSRVR (Messaging failures)(YAAC)

[Robert Bruninga]

Yes, fix that!  To one hop and direct by default to define "LOCAL"..

➢ and does not allow the local user to specify
> any digipeat aliases for Tx-I-gated packets.

Good point.  Yes, that is normally then going to be the same as the IGate
stations outgoing path setting.  Hopefully that defaults to 1 hop also (in
dense areas anyway).  But often is two hops in many less dense areas.

But if you are using KISS interfaces and can change the OUTOING path on the
fly, then by all means, make IS-to-RF messages default to one hop only.
WIDE1-1 for example.

Bob

From: aprssig [mailto:aprssig-bounces at tapr.org] On Behalf Of spam8mybrain
via aprssig
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2016 1:16 PM
To: Pete Loveall AE5PL Lists; TAPR APRS Mailing List
Subject: Re: [aprssig] IGate Registering for ANSRVR (Messaging failures)

Well, in some jurisdictions (the United Kingdom comes to mind), unattended
transmitters aren't allowed without special licensing. So there are some
cases where an Rx-only I-gate is better than nothing at all.

Regarding the I-gating ability of my own software, YAAC,  it looks like it
needs another update. Although it recognizes locality as being heard on RF,
it doesn't check the hop count before considering it as local (anything
heard on RF not using a third-party frame is local), and does not allow the
local user to specify any digipeat aliases for Tx-I-gated packets.

Andrew Pavlin, KA2DDO
author of YAAC
http://www.ka2ddo.org/ka2ddo/YAAC.html


-------- Original message --------
From: Pete Loveall AE5PL Lists via aprssig <aprssig at tapr.org>
Date: 07/15/2016 12:55 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: TAPR APRS Mailing List <aprssig at tapr.org>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] IGate Registering for ANSRVR (Messaging failures)

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
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