[WARC] APRS digipeater vs. IGate

[Clare Jarvis]

Jon,


At the Winona Igate  done at my business we are igating to the internet but not
pulling from the internet to RF.   Jon,   if you set yours up in the same manner I do not think there would be
a problem and it would cover a dead spot above wabasha for aprs tracking.

internet-->rf is another problem and requires a great deal of care and planning.  
if you do that then I would only turn it on while you can monitor until you know that you have got it set up correctly.   

Many just forward to rf message to or from a local list.

One thing that cannot be done is forwarding every internet packet to rf as there are 100s of thousands per day.


I hope my opinion helps.

There may be more than one igate in Winona,

73 Clare
de K0NY



On Friday 29 January 2010 08:04:18 jonmcpete at cpinternet.com wrote:
> We have been planning for a while to put an APRS digipeater
> on our tower at Wabasha.  Russ, N0QK, has been involved with
> the idea.  A question came up this week that I had no clue
> about:  As internet access is available 200' from the tower
> (our house), should we make it an IGate?  When is it a
> "problem" having too many connections to the internet too
> close together such as Rochester AND Winona AND Wabasha
> etc.?  Offhand I couldn't think of why that would be bad.
> If internet access was lost in a disaster, you would want it
> to revert back to a repeat mode but maybe IGates repeat
> anyway in addition to feeding info to the internet??  It
> seems to me that if IGates also normally repeat it would
> just add to the "clutter" of signals.  Can anybody educate
> me?
> Jon WA0UNB
>
> Jon Peterson wa0unb
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