[OZAPRS] European v US new paradigm

[Richard Hoskin]

Gday Mike,

The main difference is the use of RELAY.
In the EU version RELAY is retained in the US version RELAY is replaced by
WIDE1-1. This is all to do with the type of TNC's in use in the US,
basically the US use mainly Kantronics TNC's that so not support duplicate
packet suppression when using RELAY. In Europe and Australia most of the
TNC's do support duplicate packet suppression with RELAY.

I'm not sure what is happening in VK2. However in VK3 all digis will
accept
only paths set to the following;

RELAY,WIDE
RELAY,WIDE2-2
WIDE1-1,WIDE2-2
Specific path settings.

Using the EU version of the new paradigm will mean that 90% of stations
will
not have to do anything to their Tracker and Home station settings. This
will save a lot of confusion for Operators. 

Other paths will only be digipeated one digi hop.

Cheers
Richard
VK3JFK



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
> Behalf Of Mike Townsend
> Sent: Monday, 23 October 2006 5:32 PM
> To: Ozaprs at aprs.net.au
> Subject: [OZAPRS] European v US new paradigm
> 
> Hello,
> 1 - Can somebody please explain the basic difference between the two
> standards.
> 2 - Also from what I read RELAY is defunct and should not be used but
this
> appears not to be the case here in NSW.
> 3 - If we have agreed on implimenting the EU version nationally has
> anything been done with the NSW Digis. If not surely it would not be
that
> difficult to organise the change over to the new paradigm.
> Regards Mike VK2INT
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