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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
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[mailto:dxspider-support-admin@dxcluster.org]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Mike
Lewis<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, February 12, 2002 6:01 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
'dxspider-support@dxcluster.org'<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Dxspider-support] AGW
Packet Engine<BR><B>Importance:</B> High<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Saul,</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>I am running AGW under Windows 98, on a older CPU. I
unfortunately cannot help you with your question, I don't know the answer.
Seeing as how you are running a Windows config though, I thought maybe you
could help me try to understand a couple problems I have been having that I
have as of yet gotten no satisfactory explanantions for.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>1) As I have posted to this list previously, I have a problem
on my cluster where the RF link seems to 'hang', and data is not sent to the
distant station properly. Sometimes an extra return sent by the connected
station clears the condition, and sometimes the connection is completely
frozen, with the missing data sent out only after the connected station forces
a disconnect. My configuration is as a single node, not connected to the
internet, only running as an RF only cluster on a local 2m frequency. I have
now run with 2 different TNCs in KISS mode with AGW, (PK-232 and a MFJ-1270),
as well as 2 different radios with no apparent effect on the problem. There
are no error messages from the spider cluster software or the AGW that I can
see. Have you ever experienced this?<BR><SPAN class=670205314-13022002><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff>[Saul B. Dinman] I have, but on BPQ nodes
in the past. Have not noticed it on AGW software, but I have noticed that
Spider appears to hang a port sometimes because it's actually retrying up
a storm. Have you noticed large numbers of retries on one or both ends of the
RF connection? That's what prompted my question about AXD and TXD. I have seen
this excessive retry problem here and I know from older packet-days that those
2 parameters can fix the problem.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2><SPAN class=670205314-13022002> </SPAN>2) Do you have any
documentation on the Kantronics host mode used in a KPC-3? I have access to
this TNC from a friend and was thinking of trying it out.<BR><SPAN
class=670205314-13022002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>[Saul B.
Dinman] If I'm not mistaken, I think AGW prefers to use KISS mode with
the Kantronics line. The KPC-3 works fine with AGW in KISS mode, but beware;
The setup commands in the AGW documentation are incorrect; I think
he was using "INIT KISS" when it should be IN KISS for the KPC3. The former
won't work. The RESET command he uses following this fine.
</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>3) I would like to make the system able to send out an
infrequent ID beacon on the frequency. Do you know how to make this happen,
either with a KISS TNC or a Host mode Kantronics?<SPAN
class=670205314-13022002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>[Saul B. Dinman]
It does send an ID beacon, but it's controlled by AGW, not the tnc. If
you look through the agw ini files you'll see the beacon stuff there but you
can also find it in the setup screen for agw. The beacon stuff is stored in a
txt file and referenced in the agw setup stuff. Mine also sends a cw ID
if inactive for a long period.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>Thanks for any assistance,</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>73 de KE0MF</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>Mike Lewis</FONT> </P><BR>
<P><SPAN class=670205314-13022002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>In
general: AGW's "adaptive fiddling with tnc parameters makes me nervous. I
don't actually know if he tries to optimize settings for AXDelay an TXDelay or
not. I know the software fiddles with other AX.25 parameters. If I set
something into them via the port ini file I don't know whether his engine
readjusts them or not. I did send one email to him and never received a
response. In that email I told him that he had the incorrect command for
putting a KPC3 into Kiss mode and I may have offended him. That was certainly
not my intention but I noticed no correction information has appeared on
his web site since then. From reading some of the stuff on their web site, I
gather they do not favor any Kantronics TNC's.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN class=670205314-13022002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>73,
Saul Dinman, K1BI</FONT></SPAN></P>
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