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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This question will demonstrate my lack of
knowledge, but I know I need some education. I am a user of APRS and don't
run a digipeater. I have a Kenwood D700 and GPS in my car and
have successfully used the path RELAY,WIDE2-2. I got an APRS message
suggesting RELAY was obsolete, so I searched the archives of this list.
Here is what (I think) I learned:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> * In densely populated areas (I think my area
qualifies), RELAY and WIDE, and anything greater than WIDE2-2, are not
recommended</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> * There's been some discussion about just
what is recommended. One recommendation, as I recall, was
WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> * I thought I saw another recommendation of
APRS,WIDE2-2</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In addition to getting the APRS message, it seemed
to me that the closest digipeater in my area, W6CX-3, was no longer
reliably digipeating me. Other digipeaters in the area did. I
wasn't sure if W6CX-3 had changed its rules recently, or if another one had
popped up and was causing collisions, or what. But I decided to
change my path to see what would happen.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here's where I'm going to show my ignorance.
I changed the path to APRS, WIDE2-2. Not only would the local
digipeater not repeat me, but when I drove close to other digipeaters
that repeated me with my old path, those stopped repeating me
with the new path.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So I changed it to WIDE1-1,WIDE2-2. Now it
looks like all digipeaters that hear me, including W6CX-3, will now repeat
my location. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My dumb question: is WIDE1-1,WIDE2-2 an
OK path, and if not, what do you experts recommend for my relatively
densely populated location?</FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Jim - K0ZXU</FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>