Today, 00:28 -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > Now, if John says into his mic, "Hey Nate, I just switched systems... > I'll stay keyed here for a moment while you hit your ONE TOUCH > button..." That... should work. My rig -- not the local Gateway > caching -- copies his new "routing" information into temporary memory, > and now routes to the repeater he's on at each key-up, completely > bypassing the lookup that normally has to take place when I'm routing > to UR: KE5C. The rig is now going to route directly to whatever it > "copied" from John's last transmission.
Nate, As a matter of fact, it's a little simpler than that. It's not your rig that holds the routing information to reach you buddy. It's your gateway that does the trick. The only thing that OneTouch does is set your buddy's callsign in UrCall and YOUR gateway's callsign into Rpt2. It's your gateway that will actually follow your friend the minute he will key in on a new repeater with your callsign in his rig's UrCall. So if you have not reverted back to CQCQCQ between the two parts of the QSO, you dont need to OneTouch him again. Even simpler than that, if you buddy has called you by callsign and your radio is setup "RX call sign auto write" (*), you're automatically setup to reply back to him. Dont even need to OneTouch him. Your radio does his part on setting UrCall and your gateway does the actual routing to the repeater system your buddy in on. I have followed a friend from Quebec to Florida without ever touching anything but the PTT on my radio. All it took was for him to initiate the calls when he was switching repeater. Note that RX call sign auto write does not apply to japanese calls. Remember that they do not call us by callsign, but by node (eg. they put "/W0CDS B" in their rig's UrCall). When you hear such a call, the callsign auto-write will not update your rig's UrCall and you need to OnTouch (which will only work if they are registered on USROOT which only a few have done). '73 - Pierre (*) All radios have this feature; for the 2820, see p.103 of the manual. __ Pierre Thibaudeau VA2RKA/VA2RKB/VE2RIO/VE2RVR/VE2RQF/VE2RTO/VE2LKL/VE2TXD sysadmin
