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PK-88 OPERATING MANUAL
4.6
Digipeater Details
You may wish to connect to a packet station that is beyond your direct radio
range. If a third packet station is on the air and both you and the station
you want to talk to are in range of that third station, the third station can
relay or 'digipeat' your packets. You set up the 'digipeater' routing when you
request the connection. The PK-88 automatically includes the necessary routing
information in the transmitted packets. Here is a sketch that shows how
digipeating works:
You are station WX1AAA - you want to have a packet communication with
But there is a mountain between you and
other. However, you know that there is a packet station located on the ridge -
WX2BBB - which is in range of you and WX3CCC.
Instruct your PK-88 to set up a connection to
intermediate digipeater. After the cmd: prompt, type: 'CONNECT WX3CCC VIA
WX2BBB.'
You can specify a routing list of up to eight intermediate stations. For
example, consider a modification of the example above:
WX2BBB has turned off his station, but you can still contact
around the mountain through WX4DDD and WX5EEE like this:
cmd:CONNECT
Type the digipeaters' call signs in the exact order of the intended path from
your station to the station with which you wish to connect.
4.6.1
Are You a Digipeater?
Your station can be a digipeater for other stations. You do not have to 'do'
anything. Your PK-88 digipeats other stations - unless you tell it not to! See
the DFROM command in the Command Summary chapter.
The default argument of DFROM is ALL. If your transmitter is keyed when you
are not using it, or during lulls in your own conversations, your PK-88 is
being used as a digipeater by some other stations. This will not bother your
communication with the distant station.
Set MDIGI to ON (default is OFF). The packet headers on your monitor will show
the call signs of the stations that are using your station as a digipeater,
and the data being transmitted through your station.
WX2BBB
/
WXlAAA________/
____
/
WXlAAA________/
.
.
WX4DDD . . . . . . . . . . . WX5EEE
VIA WX4DDD,WX5EEE
WX3CCC
4-9
\
\_________
WX3CCC
you are out of range of each
WX3CCC;
using WX2BBB as an
WX3CCC
\
\_________
WX3CCC
.
.
PACKET OPERATION
WX3CCC.
by going
WX3CCC
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