One Digi Ignoring my Packets

[motormayhem]

Hello,
I have an interesting problem. While traveling near El Centro, Ca my APRS packets are not digipeated well. WB6WLV-11 is the digi that has good coverage of this area and for some reason it will not digipeat my packets. This means I only occasionally get picked up by N6ROR-10 further north or NORHZ-3 (yuma ~62 miles away). On the other hand two friends running FTM-400XDRs are digipeated very reliably by WB6WLV-11 thru this whole area.

I am running a mobilinkd connected to a kenwood TM-V71A at 50W. As we leave the El Centro area towards San Diego or Phoenix I am again reliably digipeated. So the radio is working. To further test this, I tried a few different applications to interface with the mobilinked. The first, APRSDroid, was not digipeated. I then tried the APRS.fi app from my iphone, again it was ignored by WB6WLV-11. However, when I used a raspberry pi running Xastir to connect to the mobilikd, my packets were digipeated by WB6WLV-11 very reliably. This makes me suspect it is a software issue as the hardware did not change between these setups (mobilinkd->TM-V71A @ 50W).

How can I go about further troubleshooting this?

Below are example packets from APRS.fi for configurations that worked and didn't:

My Radio using APRS Droid (not digipeakted by WB6WLV-11):
2021-09-26 18:08:26 PDT: KF7EFI-9>APDR16,N0RHZ-3*,KE7JVX-4*,WIDE2,qAR,K7TUS:=3240.40N/11606.44Wj160/050/A=002279

My Radio, but using Xastir (was digipeated by WB6WLV-11)
2021-09-26 17:49:13 PDT: KF7EFI-8>APX210,WB6WLV-11*,WIDE2-1,qAR,XE2GF-11:=3245.28N/11552.81Wr/A=000251/

Friend (was digipeated by WB6WLV-11)
2021-09-26 17:54:54 PDT: KN6PCB-9>SR4RXP,WB6WLV-11*,WIDE2-1,qAR,XE2GF-11:`,\ r5Uk/`"84}_%

 

[techman210]

Your deviation is likely too low, or too high (most likely).

In the absence of test equipment- If you can monitor your transmissions, then compare your packets to others on the channel. Then adjust your deviation to 60% of the loudest signals on the channel.

 

[motormayhem]

Your deviation is likely too low, or too high (most likely).

In the absence of test equipment- If you can monitor your transmissions, then compare your packets to others on the channel. Then adjust your deviation to 60% of the loudest signals on the channel.

Thanks,
Wouldn't leaving the mobilinkd in the loop between using xastir and aprsdroid eliminate deviation as the in both cases the audio levels of the mobilinkd were not changed?