--- In [email protected], "Nicholas" <ngra...@...> wrote:
>
> I may be asking a question that has already been answered. What is the
> difference between Linking (UR: KJ4MMCCL) and Source Routing (UR: /KJ4OXTC)?
> This is something I have yet to figure out.
>
> Thank you and 73s,
> Nick KF4SEK
> Cocoa, FL
>
Hi Nick,
I see several have answered the technical side of your question, so I'll limit
myself to why I WOULD NOT use source routing except in emergencies.
With source routing, you have no idea what is going on at the target repeater,
and you stand the chance of BLASTING into a QSO or net that is going on. I've
heard this more than once! If the target repeater is "linked" at the time, you
would BLAST into ALL linked repeaters! Multicast is just as bad - on more than
one occasion I have heard 1/2 of a QSO coming over Reflector 1C because one of
the Hams was using Multicast (probably forgot to turn it off) and the other was
not. The worst part - they probably weren't even talking on the repeater that
was linked to 1C, but a repeater that was part of the Multicast Programming WAS
linked to 1C.
73
Hank-KI4UMX
