S&F server sent messages on public channel

[seagull9000]

I'm having difficulty understanding Store and Forward. It doesn't seem to work as I expect.

My S&F server has the following channels:

• channel 0 is private
• channel 1 is the public channel on ShortFast

I have a node that sends alert messages on the private channel. It has just one channel:

• channel 0 is private

My portable node has 3 channels:

• channel 0 is a different private channel
• channel 1 is the public channel on ShortFast
• channel 2 is the same private channel as the other two nodes.

While I was out of range, the alert node sent some alert messages on the private channel.
When I got back into range, I sent "SF" to the S&F server, and it sent me my missed messages on the public channel.

The S&F logs clearly show that it has selected ch-index 1 for sending the missed alerts.

Why did it do that? Why wouldn't it send the missed messages on the channel on which it received them?

EDIT: It does appear my node was the only one that received the messages relayed from the S&F server, even though my portable node showed these as appearing on the ShortFast channel.

[fifieldt]

I believe Store and Forward is set to not work on the default public channel