New to YAAC, what's happening here?
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I want to send an email to myself using the EMAIL gateway.
I sent it and got no response from a digi-peater, so I kept trying until I got a response.? But then like in Star Trek episode "The Ultimate Computer," YAAC took over and started retransmitting the message again and again.? I finally spun the dial to another frequency and it transmitted only one more time. Is this normal behavior?? Why not stop after the first acknowledgement of the packet at 00:30:27? Thanks for the help,? Mark Lunday WD4ELG |
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That wasn't an acknowledgement you received. That was an "echo-back" from a local station saying it retransmitted your message.
The problem you're facing is that EMAIL isn't a real callsign; it's a server on the APRS-IS Internet backbone, and to receive an acknowledgement from that server, you need to have a transmit-capable I-gate (Tx I-gate) between your RF station and the APRS-IS. The EMAIL station may well have sent the message acknowledgement packet back to you, but if there wasn't a Tx I-gate within RF range of you, you would never see the message. Similarly, if the EMAIL server isn't running, nothing would happen. Actually, I thought the server "callsign" was EMAIL-2. :-) Andrew, KA2DDO author of YAAC ________________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of M Lu <wd4elg@...> Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2019 12:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [yaac-users] New to YAAC, what's happening here? I want to send an email to myself using the EMAIL gateway. I sent it and got no response from a digi-peater, so I kept trying until I got a response. But then like in Star Trek episode "The Ultimate Computer," YAAC took over and started retransmitting the message again and again. I finally spun the dial to another frequency and it transmitted only one more time. Is this normal behavior? Why not stop after the first acknowledgement of the packet at 00:30:27? Thanks for the help, Mark Lunday WD4ELG [cid:[email protected]] |
