Relay Option Buttons
Click on the option buttons to turn on or off this stations digipeating of the RELAY Alias.
So What the Heck Is the Digipeating of the Relay Alias?
APRS Packets are digipeated by two methods. One by use of ALIAS such as WIDE, RELAY, WIDEn-n,
TRACE and TRACEn-n. Two by using the Call Sign of the station that you want to digipeat your
APRS Packets.
Digipeaters use the above Alias. But also in the begining of APRS since there where not enough
Digipeaters the norm was for all APRS home stations to default to the digipeating of the Alias of
RELAY. Now a days we in the APRS world have a robust network of Digipeters so we do not want or
need home stations to digi the Alias of RELAY.
There are special circumstances that make the digipeating by home stations the Relay Alias still
valid. So APRS-SCS when told to do so will cause this station to digi packets that contain the RELAY
Alias. The usual reason for turning on the digipeating of relay is in the case of an area where
the digi coverage is such that without the home station digipeating RELAY packets Mobile APRS
stations would not make it to the local digi.
Another case would be for a special event where the APRS assets in the event would not make it
to the digi without the digipeating of the RELAY alias.