PK-88 OPERATING MANUAL
PACKET OPERATION
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4.6.2
Do You Want to be a Digipeater?
Many operators use their stations as digipeaters to provide a simple form of Packet net-
working. If local circumstances prevent you from being a digipeater, you can disable the
digipeat function. DFROM determines if your station will digipeat other stations, and
which stations packets will be digipeated.
DFROM's default argument is ALL. ALL means that the PK-88 will normally repeat packets
from any station that includes your station's call sign in their digipeat path.
Type
DFROM NONE
if you do not want to be used as a digipeater.
DFROM works with four arguments: ALL/NONE or YES/NO.
ALL and NONE are used alone and work in the following manner:
o
ALL - your PK-88 will repeat packets from any station;
o
NONE - your PK-88 will not repeat packets from any station.
YES and NO work with a list of call signs:
o
YES (list) - call signs of up to eight stations whose packets will be repeated;
o
NO (list) - call signs of up to eight stations whose packets will not be repeated.
Type
DFROM
to display the ALL|NONE/YES list|NO list status of station call signs whose
packets will or will not be repeated. You can use the abbreviated command form or mne-
monic:
cmd:
dfrom
cmd:
df
DFROM all
DFROM yes WX1AAA WX2BBB WX3CCC
You can add SSIDs as
-n
after the call sign.
o
If DFROM is set to NO WX1AAA or YES WX1AAA, any combination of WX1AAA,
WX1AAA-1 .... WX1AAA-15 will be matched and processed.
o
If DFROM is set to YES WX1AAA-1 or NO WX1AAA-1 then only WX1AAA-1 will match
and be processed.
Clear DFROM with
%
,
&
or
OFF
as the argument.
4.7
Unsuccessful Connections and Retries
Sometimes your attempt to connect to another station will fail; the desired station may not
be on the air, it might be out of range, or you could have typed the other station's call sign
incorrectly. If the distant station does not respond to your first connect request packet, your
PK-88 will try again.
Use the RETRY command to control the number of times the PK-88 will repeat the connect
request. The default value is 10. If your PK-88 does not get an ACK after that number (RE-
TRY) of repeats, it quits and shows:
Retry count exceeded
DISCONNECTED: {call sign}
