It may be that Xastir is filtering the NOGATE before showing you the log of received packets. You need to be looking at the actual RF received traffic to know if you copied the digipeat.

Yes I'm running direwolf connected to an FT-857d connected to a full wave 2m ant on the top of a 55ft tower...I have internet turned off for this testing. Dan W5DMH

NOGATE means that your packet will not be forwarded to the APRS-IS by compliant I-gates. Do NOT look at aprs.fi or other APRS-IS feeds for your information. The APRS-IS feed is heavily filtered, so

Maybe I am looking at success all wrong .... I am first looking at the live traffic in Xastir to see if the first digi in my path string is receiving it and repeating it. I am not seeing a repeat

No I am putting it as the last entry at the end....typical path looks like: MAYVIL,JAMTWP,K8FSU,NOGATE Dan W5DMH

The reason is not so lofty....my buddy has a digi/igate at his location however he is in an area that routinely loses internet and only has one wide digi that can reach him (and that is questionable)

Dan, Where are you putting NOGATE in your outbound path? Put it at the end. I suspect you have it as the first hop. Digipeaters look at the first unused hop request. If NOGATE is the first hop

Rob, You can be sure of the path taken by observing the used path elements in the received packet. Of course this means actually looking at the packets received, but if Dan is interested in

I'm struggling with this....NOGATE seems to cause the digi to ignore the packet When I remove NOGATE, even though I have a specified path, the local digi will repeat it anyway I tried RFONLY too and

Dan, Like Rob said, if your buddy can hear the third digi, don’t put more path elements in the outbound path. You have a specific station you are aiming to contact, so there is no need to flood an

Probably a good idea, if you want it to be RF only. Otherwise, you can't be sure. Rob KB8RCO

Should I have NOGATE in my path to insure it doesn't get gated at the first DIGI ? (These are big wide area digi's that all igate also) Dan W5DMH

If you reach your destination aftrr K8FSU, you don't need any more path elements - WIDE2-1 will only add to RF. Now the catch. If any of those stations don't DIGI your packet, it fails. Including

So I have MAYVIL close to me and I know MAYVIL can reach JAMTWP and I know JAMTWP can reach K8FSU and I know K8FSU can reach my buddy KE8OHG So my path should be simply "MAYVIL,JAMTWP, K8FSU,

Morning Dan, Yes it will. you can also do it for specific objects. Keep in mind that any station that can hear one of the stations in that path will hear it, but it should only be repeated by the

Yes I know where to set the path, the question is will it work if I put specific digi names in the path? 73 Dan W5DMH

Configure / Beacon / Path... Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32 On 1/7/2022 7:41 AM, Dan Hurd wrote:

This might be a little off topic. I am in an area that has several Wide area Digi/Igate stations. I am trying to reach a station via RF only that would probably take 5 hops if the right digi's wer

Re: “GPS and windows are a bugger…” Probably not really a Windows problem at all, but, rather, one of being able to survive the 19.5 year GPS rollovers. I had an old Pharos 360 gps that came

GPS and windows are a bugger, I have an OLD Bluetooth USB receiver that I used with Microsoft Mappoint in the 2000s. It is nearly useless indoors, (my six-year-old android phones are way better) but