<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Huh. News to me, and I run 2/3rds of the Firenet servers plus am the one generating the extra weather alerts that get sent to Firenet.<br><br></div>So if I hook up an Xastir igate at home, I can't gate my own weather alerts from my own servers (well, 2/3) out to local RF for me on my local SAR team to reference when other teams of ours are out on hovercraft rescuing people in floods? Yes, this is a real scenario that we play out at least once and often two or three times a year. Not that the weather alerts would actually help us directly in the rescues, but they'd be a heads-up that flood watch and/or rescue missions may be forthcoming.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 9:01 AM, Pete Loveall AE5PL Lists via aprssig <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org" target="_blank">aprssig@tapr.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">That is not what I said. I said FireNet servers do not support IGates and never have. Basically, FireNet servers do not keep last heard history. Therefore, the FireNet port 14580 is -not- IGate enabled and any IGate attached to it will not function correctly regarding messaging to RF.<br>
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FireNet is Internet-centric, not RF-centric. That was the reason for its original creation and remains a testbed for many non-amateur radio related feeds as well as some high capacity feeds.<br>
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73,<br>
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Pete Loveall AE5PL<br>
pete at ae5pl dot net<br>
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> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: Curt Mills [mailto:<a href="mailto:curt.we7u@gmail.com">curt.we7u@gmail.com</a>]<br>
> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2016 10:52 AM<br>
> Subject: Re: [aprssig] Polite to TX-igate weather warnings?<br>
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> What? You're saying you can't connect an igate to a Firenet server and gate<br>
> messages between Firenet and RF? The default for a bidirectional igate is to<br>
> gate messages to RF for any stations heard recently on RF there.<br>
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> I would expect you could still do that -and- choose to send weather alerts<br>
> through that were of interest for that area. Not so?<br>
><br>
> Are you saying that a Firenet server can only ACCEPT packets from others but<br>
> can't send to an igate which sends to RF?<br>
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