[WARC] APRS digipeater vs. IGate

[jonmcpete at cpinternet.com]

Thanks for the info!
Last thing:  So when you IGate  to the internet those
signals received by RF do you also still repeat what is
received by RF back out again on RF as a digipeater does for
the benefit of mobiles and of stationary users not internet
equipped?  I would think so as long as the last digit "n"of
any such RF-repeated messages can be made to be 1 no matter
what the last digit was on the received message.  Maybe that
can't be done and one just has to live with the potential
for duplication of messages?
Jon

> 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
> >
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