Do You Want To Be A Digipeater - AEA PAKRATT PK-232 Operating Manual

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MRPT
If is ON (default), you'll also see your call sign in the packet header, showing the
exact digipeater path in which you are included. the call sign of the station whose pack-
et is being decoded is flagged with as asterisk. Here's a sample taken with Monitor 4
(default), MDIGI ON and MRPT ON:
W2HPM*>W2JUP-2>W2PEE:
What time is the meeting?
W2PEE*>W2JUP-2>w2HPM <RR>
4.6.9.2

Do You want to be a Digipeater?

Many packeteers allow (and even encourage) the use of their stations as digipeaters to
provide a simple form of "networking" for the area's Packet community. If local circum-
stances prevent you from being a digipeater, you can disable the digipeat function.
DFROM
's default argument is
packets from any station that includes your station's call sign in their digipeat path.
Type DFROM NONE
DFROM
determines if your station will digipeat other stations and which stations pack-
ets will be digipeated.
DFROM
works with four arguments:
ALL NONE
and
ALL
o
NONE
o
YES NO
and
YES
o (list) – call signs of up to eight stations whose packets will be repeated;
NO
o (list) – call signs of up to eight stations whose packets will be not repeated.
To repeat packets from one or more specific stations:
o type DFROM YES
callers.
To block packets from one or more specific stations:
o type DFROM NO
stations whose call signs are listed.
Type DFROM
packets will or will not be repeated. You can use the abbreviated command form or
mnemonic:
dfrom
cmd:
DFROM
df
cmd:
DFROM
PK232UG Rev. B 9/86
ALL
if you don't want to be used as a digipeater.
are used alone and work this way:
– your PK-232 will repeat packets from any station;
– your PK-232 will not repeat packets from any station.
work with a list of call signs:
(plus a list of call signs). Packets will be repeated only from listed
(plus a list of call signs). Packets will not be repeated only from
to display the ALL/NONE/YES list/NO list status of station call signs whose
all
yes WX1AAA,WX2BBB,W3CCC,WX4DDD
. this means that your PK-232 will normally repeat
ALL, NONE, YES
and
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NO
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