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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Greetings all,</FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<DIV><BR> This past weekend, I
participated with other BRATS (Baltimore Radio Amateur Television Society)
members in a public service event over on the eastern shore (Salisbury, MD). I
was unable to do APRS over RF in my vehicle, so I decided to beacon my location
over APRS IS only over my cell connection.</DIV>
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<DIV> I was not able to send a message
to anyone on RF, but I was able to receive without a problem. They were able to
reach an IGATE as their location was on findu, but as far as I can tell, they
did not reach an IGATE directly and went through several digipeaters. We
attempted to set up a local IGATE, but there must have been a misconfiguration
in the IGATE setup because it did not work.</DIV>
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<DIV> Are IGATEs able to gate messages
to RF to stations heard over a digipeater? If so, Is there any intelligence to
IGATEs so that the messages are transmitted following the minimum path possible
and choosing the best possible IGATE to limit the number of transmissions?</DIV>
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<DIV>73,<BR>Jeremy<BR>K2ORX<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>