Wes Johnston, AI4PX wrote: > Hey, tongue in cheek question.... since the -n numbers are negative > (right??? lol) they don't actually decrement.... they increment > towards 0. So can we use a path of WIDE7-7 and have it go right past > 0 into positive numbers... ie WIDE7+2, WIDE7+3, etc.... lol. >
Great cheek tonguing, but just for the non-AX.25 experts out there, the dash (-) doesn't really get transmitted as such on the air. The 6 characters of the callsign are transmitted in bit-shifted ASCII, but the -SSID is transmitted in 4 bits in the AX.25 on-the-air packet. That's why we're limited to 0 to 15 for -SSIDs when communicating over RF. A simple callsign (say KJ4ERJ) is actually transmitted as if it had a -0 -SSID (KJ4ERJ-0) but most formatters suppress the -0. Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Liking the negative concept anyway!
