Hi - new to the list and the TT4, and APRS in general.
A friend and I have been activating SOTA summits.? We are finding that APRS with our HT's is hit and miss.? Some summits have APRS coverage, some don't.? Even if we can hear a digi, it often can't hear our HT's, or can only hear them on high power and we'd rather conserve batteries.? In general, we don't care that much about tracking/beaconing, but we want to be able to send out SOTA spots and get spots using the APRS SOTA gateway (address a text to SOTA and receive texts from the SOTA gateway).
I thought it would be nice if I could configure my higher powered mobile to digipeat our HT's while we are at the summits, assuming the HT is within simplex reach.? Most of the configurations I've tried also make it digipeat other packets as well.? I don't really want it to do that.
I did try a configuration using a special alias that will digipeat our HT's if we set the path to include that alias, but we cannot receive any packets back from the gateway (spot acknowledgements, for example).
Maybe I am barking up the wrong tree here, but is something like this possible?? In essence, I want the mobile digi (with the TT4) to repeat packets from our two callsigns going out to the SOTA callsign, and also repeat anything it receives from the SOTA callsign (or anything destined to our two callsigns).? I want to be able to park the car in any remote or busy area and not worry about messing up the network.
Thanks,
Rick
W5RJD
