[WARC] APRS digipeater vs. IGate

[Russell Marsolek]

Morning John!

And if interested, I have a radio and TNC should you wish to setup a
standard APRS Node.

RLM / N0QK

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From: warc-bounces at lists.w0ne.org [mailto:warc-bounces at lists.w0ne.org] On
Behalf Of jonmcpete at cpinternet.com
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 8:04 AM
To: warc at lists.w0ne.org
Subject: [WARC] APRS digipeater vs. IGate

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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