We are an AuxComm/ARES group in Nassau County Florida and we've set up VarAC FM nodes across the entire county. Our mission is emergency comms without the use of repeaters, anything government and except for Email (Starlink and generators at 2 nodes), the internet.
We ran our first net as kind of a anything goes Broadcast check-in using a middle of the county node as a digipeater. It was a bit of a mess but proved the concept works and the coverage was where we wanted it to be.
My question is using EmComm mode with the Checkin Req button. Can we use a digipeater with this? I don't see anywhere to do this unless it uses the Beacon Digipeat Via field. It seems like a really neat tool but, if we can't get to the other side of the county, it wouldn't be of much use.
TNX,
Mike - N9HEL
Answered my own question! Slick how it works!