Instead manually relaying Vmails, what about an intelligent Store and Forward of messages.
Example: I connect a relay station and deliver my Vmail. The Vmail is now on "relaying" status there.
Now, the Relay station will check periodically (once per hour) his own LH list and SNR. If the station is heard and the SNR is good enough, the Relay station will _active_ connect the adressed station and deliver the Vmail.
Right now, i´m doing it manually if i use a Relay station. Why not give it more comfort?
73 Andre
I totally understand the value in this and I have given this topic a lot of thought long time ago when I created the relay-notification mechanism.
But there are many factors that can go wrong as we do not want to forward emails over the CF. So it will required automatic QSY of both stations. but if no one is present ay either side - where do we QSY ? how do we decide on the SLOT we QSY to ? how to we validate the QSY frequency is not busy?
This is why I created the relay notification. So when you know you need to collect something, one side (the collector) can hold the steering wheel and control the proccess...
If we do it on the CF, (assuming that we put aside potential QRM as machine can't 100% know the freq is clear), then we will blocked it for beacons and CQs as it will solely be a VMAIL relay frequency.
73s
Irad