no differentstion of i-Gates

[Karl-Heinz Reif]

when running two iGates with identical call but different systems analog fsk on 2m and

lora aprs on 70cm only the 2m iGate shows up on aprs.fi wheras on aprs.to and

aprsdirect the 70cm iGate is also shown. - please fix !

[Ricardo Guzman]

I will only show the last one beacon. Fix it by using different SSID (on the callsign) on each one

CA2RXU

[Karl-Heinz Reif]

thank you !

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[Heikki Hannikainen]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2026, Ricardo Guzman wrote:

> I will only show the last one beacon. Fix it by using different SSID (on the callsign) on each one

Each APRS station and especially iGate will need a unique Callsign-SSID
pair. Otherwise there will be some packet loss on the APRS-IS.

If APRS-IS server 1 has a client "IGATE-5", and packets are injected with
"IGATE-5" source callsign or igate callsign on APRS-IS server 2, server 1
will drop those packets, as they seem to be looped back - they would need
to appear on the client socket where "IGATE-5" is connected.

As a general rule, always use a unique callsign-SSID for each station
which are operating simultaenously. As an exception, I happily use the
same callsign-SSID on multiple hand-held APRS radios which I only operate
one by one. :)

- Hessu