Subject: Some dumb questions that I hope someone will take a shot at
To: ham-digital@ucsd.edu
In article <1994Feb1.124509.3349@mallrc.mala.bc.ca> wagner@mala.bc.ca (TOM WAGNER, Wizzard of old Audio/Visual Equipment........Nanaimo Campus) writes:
> In article <2ik91nINN932@grumpy.symantec.com>, Alan K. Adamson <aadamson@symantec.com> writes:
> > Ok, I have read some articles metioning digital regenerating repeaters.
> > Anyone
> > want to take a stab at a laymans defintion? What are we talking about
> > here.
> Are you perchance refering to Digipeater use. This is a system
> whereby you can use another packet system as a repeater. It is
> quite handy to extend the range to which you can communicate. My
> system (baycom) works as an excellent digi- peater. Basically I
> place a call to my final QSO by using any reasonable number of
> friends packet units. They recieve my call and pass it on to
> another repeater who passes it on..... well you know, till it gets
> to the final repeater.
Don't think that is what a digital regenerating repeater is.
Digipeaters tend to be an operating mode of every packeteer's setup.
I believe that digital regenerating repeaters are more along the lines
of 2M FM repeaters, for example, in that they are located at some
central point with a view to maximum coverage, etc. I speculate that
they receive on one frequency, recover the bits, send them to another
modem, the output of which gets applied to a transmitter on another
frequency. I would also guess that most of them are supported by
groups of people rather than individuals.
Perhaps someone like Bdale will tell us what they _really_ are.
