This is the last discussion of digipeating I can find. I assume that users have found that digipeating works fine with the tracker2 device?
--- In [email protected], Tom Hayward <t...@...> wrote: > > The way I plan to do this (haven't actually bought a truckload of > Tracker2s to try it yet) is with preemtive digipeating with a path > like WIDE2-1,SAR7-7. Normal digipeaters will pick this up for one hop, > but your specially configured Tracker2s will digipeat through the > entire mesh (well, 7 hops anyway--should be sufficient). > > I'd read up on the preemtive digipeating feature: > http://wiki.argentdata.com/index.php?title=Digipeater_Setup#Preemption > > Tom KD7LXL > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 5:14 PM, riverri...@... > <riverri...@...> wrote: > > Can anyone point me toward a good discussion of the use of mobile > > digipeaters? > > > > I am interested in using a bunch of T2s on SAR operations. I am trying to > > figure out the criteria for determining which of the units that I want to be > > functioning as digipeaters. Or can they all be set up to repeat? > > > > For sake of discussion, if we assume that there are trackers at the points > > of a compass and IC is at 6. The receiver at IC can not hear the tracker at > > 12, but the trackers at 8 and 4 can hear the tracker at 12. When assume that > > all trackers are moving with respect to each other so the transmission > > success with vary with time. > > > > If you set each tracker to repeat and set the hop at 1, will "it all work > > out" (like magic) as long as any one tracker can be heard by at least one > > other one? What happens when 10 other trackers can hear anyone particular > > tracker. > > > > I just don't have my little brain wrapped around a "cloud of digipeaters" > > and how that will sort out. > > > > What topics should I be searching on to educate myself? > > > > Many thanx in advance. > > > > -- > > Jim Tolbert, KC9MXT > > PO Box 536 > > Webster, WI 54893 > > > > >
