<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Greetings.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I just discovered an interesting "loop" caused by I-gating. My Tx I-gate received a text message from APRS-IS that was originally sent by a digipeater that I received both by Internet and by long-range digpeater hop on RF. So, I've heard the station on RF (but not _local_ RF, because there were one to three digipeaters in the path by the time I received it on RF). It is one of the self-addressed text messages that go with telemetry messages to say how to interpret the telemetry (EQNS, BITS, UNIT, PARM).</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">So, my Tx I-gate, having received from the Internet a text message addressed to a station it has heard over RF, proceeded to transmit the text message to RF (but without enough digipeat aliases to actually reach the station).</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">This sounds like a bug in my I-gate. So is the correct solution:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">1. never Tx I-gate self-addressed text messages.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">2. never Tx I-gate to RF stations that require more hops than I allow on my Tx I-gate digipeat path (i.e., for Tx I-gates that can put a WIDE1-1 or WIDE2-1 on their retransmissions). For the common case of no digipeat path for Tx I-gating, the RF station would have to be heard directly (not by digipeater) by the I-gate.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">So how should I fix my I-gate?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Andrew, KA2DDO</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">author of YAAC ("Yet Another APRS Client")<br></div></div></body></html>