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Ok, here are your considerations.
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Kantronics in KA-Node is creating a NetRom link, if i am not mistaken, and creates a LOT of traffic.? I avoid this at all costs.? But that is just me in my county and my preferences.
The advantage is that a message send from one use to the other as the packets are sent they are ACK'd by the KA-node and that's that.? Then the KA-node transmit to destination and the destination ACK's the packets.
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If the Kantronics is a digipeater (my preference) then it remains silent except to ID, beacons, and when it receives something to be repeated.
The disadvantage is that the packet is sent by the origin, is repeated by the Kantronics, then is ACK'd by the destination, which has to then be sent back to and repeated by the Kantronics all the way back to the origin for the packet to be considered delivered.
This method results in minimal air time.
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If you are in a sparcely populated area then the first scenario would work.
If you are in an area with even a small number of packet stations then you might get complaints about the amount of traffic heard.
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73,
Mark, N5MDT
Montgomery, Texas
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