Pierre, Got all your replies. Everything makes sense. See what I get for thinking about routing late at night.
My comments about it NOT following people comes from the NUMEROUS reports from people that say it takes ten minutes or more for the root update that the mobile user changed gateways to go thru. Not my own experience. I've yet to try to "follow" someone between Gateways with callsign routes. Thus my thought that one-touch could be used, but you're right -- it doesn't change the RPT2 field in the rig. -- Nate Duehr Sent from my iPhone On Apr 10, 2009, at 5:44, Pierre Thibaudeau <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
