<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 7:39 PM Stephen H. Smith <<a href="mailto:wa8lmf2@aol.com">wa8lmf2@aol.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 5/14/2016 4:49 PM, jason arends via aprssig wrote:<br>
> Today I was trying to route my packets through a specific digi by setting my<br>
> path on my mobile to WIDE1-1,JOPLIN - thinking that it would either be picked<br>
> up by a fill-in and then JOPLIN, or JOPLIN would hear it first and repeat it<br>
> due to responding to the WIDE1-1.<br>
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This doesn't work! Hops are processed SEQUENTIALLY from left to right. Some<br>
digi has to act on the WIDE1-1 hop FIRST, marking it as used on the<br>
retransmission. Then, if the Joplin digi hears the retransmission from the<br>
first digi, it would respond to JOPLIN, marking IT as used.<br>
<br>
If you manage hit JOPLIN directly on the first hop, it is "using up" the<br>
WIDE1-1 hop. The JOPLIN hop is then "wasted" since no other digi will respond<br>
to that call.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Right, that's why I think it *should* work - if I hit JOPLIN directly, it should repeat because it *does* respond to WIDE1-1, that's why WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1 works. Then no other station will respond to the "wasted" JOPLIN in the path, so it should always either get repeated by a fill-in, then JOPLIN, or just JOPLIN if I manage to hit it directly.</div><div><br></div><div>I suspect my real issue is I'm just not able to hit JOPLIN when I think I should be able to, or the quality of the packets from the setup I'm using to test is sub-par but the fill-in K0JAA is more forgiving maybe. I'll do more testing with another radio. </div><div><br></div><div>JOPLIN is a Microsat WX3-in-1 2.0 on a FT-2800 and K0JAA is a TNC-PI on a DR-135, I was testing using a BaoFeng with a Mobilinkd and APRSDroid, through a magmount as I was driving around.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I only heard a repeat from the fill-in, not<br>
> when I was close to JOPLIN and out of range of the fill-in. Do paths not work<br>
> the way I am thinking, or do I have JOPLIN misconfigured in some way?<br>
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In the path setup above (WIDE1-1,JOPLIN), JOPLIN is only going to respond to<br>
it's own call if (and only if) some other digi within earshot of JOPLIN "uses<br>
up" the WIDE1-1 hop first.<br>
<br>
Or is<br>
> JOPLIN ignoring it because it's own call is already in the path?<br>
><br>
> WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1 does work, I was just trying this to keep packets local as a test.<br>
><br>
> ~jason<br>
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