[OZAPRS] APRS- UI digi question

Matthew Cook vk5zm at bistre.net
Wed Nov 1 17:08:24 AEDT 2017


What was the reason for the congestion, misconfigured clients
(wide1-1,wide2-2) or overlap in the coverage areas ?

Matthew
VK5ZM

On 1 November 2017 at 12:21, Dom Dahl <vk2hj69 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Also the reason RHR is a wide1 only digi is 2AMW is wide 2 and packets
> were being duplicated and was causing unnecessary congestion.
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> On 1 Nov. 2017 12:43, "Glen English VK1XX" <glenlist at pacificmedia.com.au>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Justin
>>
>> Surely RHR being on top of a huge mountain, seeing into the sydney
>> basin, and everywhere else, being a true wide area digi, IE should be a
>> WIDE2-x digi , not a xxx1-1 digi which I read from descriptions is
>> supposed to be a local get out of the local hole digi ?
>>
>> ?
>>
>> I guess it is desired to collect the local WIDE1-1 traffic, although
>> surely it should substitute the WIDE1-1 and  decrement the WIDE2-y field
>> (and kill it if 0)  ?
>>
>>
>> :-) glen
>>
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>> On 31/10/2017 4:45 PM, Justin Albury wrote:
>> > VK2RHR-1 is a WIDE1-1 & iGate
>> >
>> > It's only been an iGate since I installed the DMR repeater.  If for any
>> reason users would like it to change from a WIDE1-1 let me know.....happy
>> to play :-)
>> >
>> > I will soon have my new tower built on the hilltop in Goulburn and my
>> digi/iGate will change from VK2JUZ-1 to VK2RGN-1 another 120m + tower
>> higher in the sky
>> >
>> > Justin Albury
>> > J Albury Communications
>> > justin at jacomms.com
>> > 0417246791
>> > VK2JUZ
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>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: OZAPRS [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On Behalf Of Glen
>> English VK1XX
>> > Sent: Tuesday, 31 October 2017 1:33 PM
>> > To: ozaprs at aprs.net.au
>> > Subject: [OZAPRS] APRS- UI digi question
>> >
>> > Can anyone tell me why I am seeing VK2NR-5 and not other traffic out of
>> sydney.
>> >
>> > Someone in sydney might be able to tell me why, or someone else might
>> shed some light. Yes I understand the WIDE  etc nomenclature.
>> >
>> > I see there are a few digipeaters and users still expecting/using RELAY
>> and  TRACE  ...
>> >
>> > ALot of old digipeaters around on hills that are neglected.
>> >
>> > VK2NR-5>APRS,VK2RHR-1,VK1RBM-1*:
>> > <UI>:
>> > }NEUTBAY>APRS,TCPIP,VK2NR-5*::BLN2SYDTD:Tide 0.73M, Vis 30Km, Cloud 01
>> Okt, Air Qual 50, UV idx
>> >
>> > I cannot see his original packets of course- that is BEFORE the
>> substitutions.
>> >
>> > as I understand it if he used WIDE2-2, then VK2RHR-1 would be the next
>> and send WIDE2-1 and VK2RBM-1 would hear WIDE2-1 and since that's the end,
>> just subs its own call in there.
>> >
>> > The question is also, how come I am not hearing other WIDE2-2s out of
>> sydney via  VK2RHR-1  ?
>> >
>> > There is something I do not understand yet.
>> >
>> > I had a look at the igate raw packet dump but that was for some other
>> packets he sent.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > glen
>> >
>> >
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