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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I hope someone out on the list here can help me
with setting the configuration on a TNC-X by Coastal Chip Works that I have just
put together, it has the X-Digi daughter Board, so it can be set up as a
digipeater.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This TNC just runs in the KISS mode. The X-Digi is
a new item with the TNC-X. I had contacted John, the person that I purchased it
from, but he was only able to give me limited help, he suggested to maybe
contact the list here. I have never set up a digi station before, but have
worked with my KAM TNC over the years, so I do have some understanding of the
necessary setting in a TNC, and seen the setting for the newer KAM TNC, but mine
are the older ones that do not support the newer setting.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would like to set it up as a
fill-in digpeater for events where the regular digipeaters in the area are
not able to cover.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here are the settings it is looking
for.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> DigiPeater Configuration
Menu
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<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>C. Set Digipeater
Callsign.
:K6BIR-9
<BR>A. Set Digipeater
Alias.
:URDIGI
<BR>F. Set UIFlood
Callsign.
:CA
<BR>L. Set UIFlood
Limit.
:7
<BR>T. Set UITrace
Callsign.
:WIDE
<BR>M. Set UITrace
Limit.
:4
<BR>1. Set UICall
1.
:
<BR>2. Set UICall
2.
:
<BR>3. Set UICall
3.
:
<BR>4. Set UICall
4.
:
<BR>5. Set UICall
5.
:
<BR>6. Set UICall
6.
:
<BR>7. Set UICall
7.
:
<BR>8. Set UICall
8.
:
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<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>D. Set Dupe Time (x5
secs).
:6
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>B. Set
Beacons. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>These are the instructions that came with
TNC-X</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Choose the item you wish to reconfigure by pressing
the letter or number in the left hand column. The Callsign and Alias are
fairly straightforward, but some of the other parameters may require
explanation. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The UIFlood callsign supports the WIDEn-N
paradigm. When the digi receives a packet with a path of, say WIDE3-3, it
will decrement the SSID value (to WIDE3-2) and retransmit the packet. When
it reaches WIDE3-0, it will replace this value with the X-Digi’s
callsign. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>UITrace works in a similar manner, but adds
X-Digi’s callsign to the path. So, for example, WIDE3-3 becomes URCALL,
WIDE3-2 in the above example. The limits for UIFlood and UITrace are
provided to allow the X-Digi to stop overly long paths. In the above case
the UITrace limit is set to 3, so an incoming path of WIDE4-4, for example,
would be simply be digipeated as URCALL. The UICall fields allow you
to specify up to 8 calls for which X-Digi will simply do callsign
substitution. For example, if Duplicates are calculated based on a CRC
that is applied to the entire packet except for the path. So if X-Digi
sees a packet with the same source and destination address and the same contents
within the time period specified by dupetime, it will not diigipeat it.
Because this timer is set in increments of 5 seconds, a value of 6, for example,
will result in a 30 second duplicate checking period. Do not set this
value higher than about 24 (2 minutes). Setting the dupe value to 0 turns
off dupe checking.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Selecting the B value from the menu brings up
another menu that allows you to set up the beacons. X-Digi supports 4
different beacons, each of which can be sent at a different interval, have a
different path, and have a different text. To set up these beacons, hit
the B key. The time values here are in increments of 5 seconds, so to set
a beacon to transmit every 10 minutes, for example, you would use a value of
120. The offset value allows you to specify a time period to elapse before
the first beacon is sent. For example, if you set Beacon 1 to be sent
every 5 minutes and Beacon 2 to be sent every 10 minutes, every other time you
would have both beacons sent at the same time. While this will work, you
might prefer to have X-Digi wait a minute or two before sending the first beacon
so that the two beacons would never be sent at the you wanted to support RELAY
(not currently recommended) you could do so by adding this value in
UICALL. Packets with a path of RELAY would be digipeated with a path of
URCALL.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The menu also allows you to specify a dupe time
value in 5 second intervals. same time. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for any help that the list may
provide,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Vince,
K6BIR
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