MFJ-1270C/1274C MANUAL BASIC OPERATION
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Be sure to remove JMP10 after you complete this "Connecting and
Disconnecting Exercise".
Digipeating
You may wish to have a QSO with another packet station that is beyond your
direct radio range. If a third packet station is on the air and both you and the
station you want to talk to are in range of this third station, that station can relay
your packets. You set up the packet routing when you initiate the connection.
The MFJ TNC will then automatically include the routing information in the
packets it sends.
The diagram below shows an example situation in which digipeating is useful.
AD7I
/ \
N2WX _________/ \_________ K5FLU
You are station K5FLU, and you want to have a packet QSO with N2WX.
There is a mountain in the way and you are not in simplex range of each other.
However there is a station located on the ridge, AD7I, which is in range of both
you and N2WX.
You direct the MFJ TNC to set up a connection to N2WX using AD7I as an
intermediate digipeater as follows:
cmd:
CONNECT N2WX VIA AD7I
You can specify a routing list of up to eight intermediate stations. For example,
consider a modification of the example above:
____
N2WX _________/ \_________ K5FLU
. .
. .
KV7D . . . NK6K
AD7I has turned off his station, but you can contact N2WX by going around the
mountain through NK6K and KV7D. This time you issue the connect command
like this:
