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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

using WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1

Yesterday, we took a roadtrip in Land Barge II to Sugar Hill, NH. Our route was I-84 to Hartford, I-91 to Wells River, VT, Route 302 to Lisbon, NH, and Route 117 to Sugar Hill and our destination Polly's Pancake Parlor.

The TH-D7(G) indicated that its APRS packets were being digipeated throughout the roundtrip, but when I arrived home and checked the APRS track on the Internet, it showed a gap between Greenfield, MA, and Brattleboro, VT, and a complete lack of Internet coverage north of Claremont, NH (see map).

The path in the D7 was WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1. I will reset the path to WIDE1-1,WIDE2-2 and see if that improves matters.

5 comments:

  1. One of these days I hope to get into ARPS. I've been having a hard time finding the time to sit down and really learn it!

    Justin
    KB3JUV

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  2. [...] In my blog entry for May 31, I wrote about my roadtrip to New Hampshire with APRS running in Land Barge II, :The TH-D7(G) indicated that its APRS packets were being digipeated throughout the roundtrip, but when I arrived home and checked the APRS track on the Internet, it showed a gap between Greenfield, MA, and Brattleboro, VT, and a complete lack of Internet coverage north of Claremont, NH.” [...]

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  3. Since changing our Digis & home set-ups to the new Pardigm, our local tracking is terrible compared to the old way. Cannot get home stations set up correctly to digipeat for some reason.

    Charlie, K4ITV

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  4. I've been looking for an explanation for this and haven't seen a good one yet:

    Why is "WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1" any different from "WIDE2-2"?

    Is it because "fill-in" digis are usually programmed to accept only "WIDE1-X" packets?

    Otherwise, wouldn't a "WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1" packet be digipeated the same as a "WIDE2-2" packet, as a "WIDE2-1" packet?

    If fill-in digis are usually programmed to accept only WIDE1-X packets I can see the benefits, because it would prevent them from even repeating any WIDE2-1 packets received from local "master" digis.

    This would be worth answering in QST!

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  5. What is the difference between wide1, wide2, wide3, etc?

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