[OZAPRS] next APRS- UI digi question (1)

[Glen English VK1XX]

Hi Josh

thanks. yeah lots of what I read is workarounds to deal with old TNC on
mountains.

So with our canberra / ACT infrastructure, with have right now VK1RBM-1,
it's an old TNC . I dont know how it is configured, precisely.

It has pretty good canberra metro coverage, right slap bang in the
middle of town.

Then, a MACRO over all that is Mt Ginini, which the voice repeater on
the site has a reliable 100km range, 200km to average base stations....
(RHR is about 200km). it is REALLY wide.
coverage over canberra metro is pretty reasonable also, but it is 50km
from town.

Ginini I was told had rather outdated setups, from the 90s. As you know,
a new dire wolf box and radio is ready to go, takes a bit of
organisation to get to Ginini. 85km , weather etc

My question is how should I configure this up, IE specifically the UI
DWAIT time- I think that's the parameter (or the Kantronics name for it)
, IE do I want to have a long delay after it hears something to whether
it decides to repeat it ? IE so the local RBM in metro canberra does the
bulk of the UI work . But if say a 2 seconds goes past , ginini says,
OK, no one local heard it, I will digipeat it

or is that sort of operation problematic ?

Or should locals have a specific configuration ?

ginini is often used for connected mode traffic from east (on the coast)
to west of the country (say wagga, albury) . but it does its share of
Hume Highway APRS work .

have more questions about this, but this is part 1.

wisdom sought.

with thanks,

glen