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USER'S GUIDE
4.6.9
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. Your PK-232 automatically
includes the necessary routing information in the transmitted packets. Here's a sketch
that shows how digipeating can solve problems:
You are station WX1AAA – you want to have a Packet QSO with WX3CCC. But there's a
mountain between you and WX3CCC; you're out of simplex range each other. However,
you know that there's a Packet station located on the ridge – WX2BBB – which is in range
of you and W3CCC.
Instruct your PK-232 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. This time, type the connect command 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.
4.6.9.1
Are You a Digipeater?
Your Packet station can be a digipeater for other stations. You don't have to anything –
your PK-232 digipeats other stations – unless you tell it not to do! (See the
command in the Command Summary.)
The default argument of
using it, or during lulls in your own conversations, you're being used as a digipeater by
some other stations. This won't bother your chat with your partner.
MDIGI
Set
call signs of the stations using you as a digipeater, and the data being transmitted.
PK232UG Rev. B 9/86
WX1AAA_____/
prompt, type
cmd:
WX1AAA_____/
·
·
WX4DDD . . . . . . . . . . . . WX5EEE
DFROM
to ON (default is OFF). The packet headers on your monitor will show the
WX2BBB
/
\
\_____WX3CCC
CONNECT WX3CCC VIA
___
/
\
\_____WX3CCC
is "ALL". If your transmitter is keyed when you're not
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OPERATING MODES
WX2BBB.
·
·
DFROM
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