Linux-Hams archive - February 1997: Re: Standard for command

Re: Standard for command

Carl Makin (gbdxxwds.uxfmoiurh@univits.se)
Mon, 3 Feb 1997 10:39:58 +1100 (EST)


On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Alan Crosswell wrote:

> By the way, AX.25 does not necessarily have the transmitting station's
> callsign in each and every packet. A digipeater repeats the original
> senders callsign as the from-call, not the digipeater's callsign.

AX.25 digipeating contains the callsign of the digipeating station as
well.

> One of the frustrations of debugging digipeated packets is not being
> able to tell *who* digipeated it.

When a digipeater repeats a frame it flips a bit to say that it has done
it so I assume you're not talking about vanilla AX.25 digipeating here.
The only system in common use that doesn't id the transmitter's callsign
seems to be NET/ROM.

Carl.

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