[WARC] APRS digipeater vs. IGate

[James Jarvis]

Jon,

Around here it probably wouldn't hurt to have it I-Gate. In areas with 
more activity, too many I-Gates can hurt by gatewaying messages from the 
internet to RF too much.

I would say go for it.

-Jim

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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