<div dir="ltr">Agreed; we really shouldn't be setting up null-cable KISS crossbands for APRS these days. Between Direwolf for its own modem and Aprx for other KISS TNCs both having multi-port digi support, and single board computers / MicroITX industrial PCs being so cheap, you can set up very intelligent cross-band digi for not much more than the rest of the system expenses..</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">--<br>Kenneth Finnegan<br><a href="http://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/" target="_blank">http://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/</a></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 8:40 AM, John Langner WB2OSZ <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wb2osz@comcast.net" target="_blank">wb2osz@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
> Has anybody actually succeeded in putting two KISS TNC's "back to<br>
> back" to form an independently operating (no computer between them)<br>
> two-way "bridge" to pass traffic bi-directionally?<br>
> Lots of suggesting that this could work, but has it been done?<br>
<br>
In theory it should work but it's not a proper solution to the problem.<br>
Here is why.<br>
<br>
When a packet is first transmitted, the via path contains information on how<br>
it might be forwarded by digipeaters.<br>
<br>
Each time a digipeater retransmits a packet, it modifies the via path to<br>
decrease the number of possible remaining digipeater hops. This limits the<br>
number of times it can be retransmitted.<br>
<br>
If you were to simply retransmit what you hear on one frequency onto some<br>
other frequency, that would be OK if only one person was doing it. However,<br>
if you had two stations like this, that could hear each other, the same<br>
packet could go bouncing back and forth forever.<br>
<br>
To do it properly you would want to put an application between the two TNCs<br>
to perform digipeating by the normal rules. There are countless digipeater<br>
implementations out there but I'm not sure how many of them can handle<br>
multiple radio channels at the same time.<br>
<br>
The "direwolf" software TNC can handle up to 6 radios at the same time and<br>
has the ability to digipeat between different channels in any combination.<br>
Run it on a Raspberry Pi and you have something smaller and cheaper than a<br>
stack of old TNCs, with better receive decoding, and vastly more<br>
versatility.<br>
<br>
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