Are You A Digipeater - Advanced Electronic Applications PK-88 Operating Manual

PK-88 OPERATING MANUAL
You are station WX1AAA - you want to have a Packet communication with WX3CCC. But
there is a mountain between you and WX3CCC; you are out of range of each other. How-
ever, 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 WX3CCC using WX2BBB as an intermediate
digipeater. After the
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 WX3CCC by going around the
mountain through WX4DDD and WX5EEE like this:
CONNECT WX3CCC VIA WX4DDD,WX5EEE
cmd:
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 us-
ing 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
signs of the stations that are using your station as a digipeater, and the data being trans-
mitted through your station.
If MRPT is ON (default), you will also see your call sign in the packet header, showing the
digipeater path in which you are included. The call sign of the station whose packet is
being decoded is marked with as asterisk. Assume that your call sign is 'WX2BBB'. Here's
a sample taken with Monitor 4 (default), MDIGI ON and MRPT ON:
WX1AAA*>WX2BBB>WX3CCC:
What time is the meeting?
WX3CCC*>WX2BBB>WX1AAA
WX1AAA _______/
prompt, type:
cmd:
WX1AAA _________/
.
.
WX4DDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WX5EEE
ON (default is OFF). The packet headers on your monitor will show the call
WX2BBB
/ \
\_________ WX3CCC
CONNECT WX3CCC VIA
xxxx
/ \
\__________ WX3CCC
.
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WX2BBB.
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