<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 4:57 PM Stephen H. Smith via aprssig <<a href="mailto:aprssig@lists.tapr.org">aprssig@lists.tapr.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>and would more igates make a difference?</div>
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<p>6) YES!! Having one or more igates in your own local area
will ensure that even the single-hop short paths get heard and
passed to the Internet. </p></div></blockquote><div>And to fully service the APRS community, these should NOT be RX only iGates.</div><div>There's a whole other long discussion about this elsewhere in the archives, but RX only iGates only serve to get posit data to the internet, not messaging and other APRS functionality that depends on iGates being two-way with their traffic.</div><div><br></div><div>Randy</div><div>WF5X</div><div> </div></div></div>