<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Jim Duuuude <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:telesistant@hotmail.com" target="_blank">telesistant@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Boy, *that* was just painfully obvious... (NOT!)<br><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Heh. It's documented pretty clearly in the APRS spec, once you find it. Unfortunately the spec is divided between an official PDF document and a collection of HTML "addenda". All can be found (with a little eye strain) on <a href="http://www.aprs.org">www.aprs.org</a>.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="ltr">Okay, I'll fix it. :-)<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Excellent.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="ltr">Thanks for letting me know.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>NP.<br>
<br><hr>From: <a href="mailto:tom.km5vy@gmail.com" target="_blank">tom.km5vy@gmail.com</a><br>Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 10:44:03 -0600<br>To: <a href="mailto:rpt2@chuck.midlandsnetworking.com" target="_blank">rpt2@chuck.midlandsnetworking.com</a><br>
CC: <a href="mailto:kc9gqr@gmail.com" target="_blank">kc9gqr@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org" target="_blank">app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] APRS TT and APRS BEACON rate on ALLSTAR LINK..<div>
<div class="h5"><br><br><br><br><div>On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Chuck Henderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rpt2@chuck.midlandsnetworking.com" target="_blank">rpt2@chuck.midlandsnetworking.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><font size="1"><span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">APRSTT on my systems works for some call signs but not for some others. </span></font></div>
<div><font size="1"><span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Here is an example from the <a href="http://aprs.fi" target="_blank">aprs.fi</a> raw log.</span></font></div>
<div><font size="1"><span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Can anyone shed some light on why N9DOA shows up as "</span></font><b style="color:rgb(255,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;white-space:nowrap;font-size:x-small">[Invalid object]</b><font size="1"><span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">"? </span></font></div>
<div><font size="1"><span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Is it a problem with <a href="http://aprs.fi" target="_blank">aprs.fi</a> or with the code in app_rpt, or with the way I setup rpt.conf?</span></font></div>
<div><font size="1"><span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Chuck</span></font></div><div><font size="1"><span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font size="1"><span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">2012-06-04 14:05:58 UTC: <b><a href="http://aprs.fi/?c=raw&limit=&call=WB9UUS-R" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);outline-style:none;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">WB9UUS-R</a></b>>APRS,TCPIP*,qAC,CORE-2:=4030.48N/08859.28WrPHG9580/AllStar Node 27468</span><br style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">2012-06-04 14:06:08 UTC: <b><a href="http://aprs.fi/?c=raw&limit=&call=WB9UUS-R" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);outline-style:none;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">WB9UUS-R</a></b>>APSTAR,TCPIP*,qAC,CORE-2:;WB9UUS-12*140608z4030.38N708859.28WAAsterisk app_rpt user</span><br style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);white-space:nowrap;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">2012-06-04 14:38:05 UTC: <b><a href="http://aprs.fi/?c=raw&limit=&call=WB9UUS-R" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);outline-style:none;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">WB9UUS-R</a></b>>APSTAR,TCPIP*,qAC,CORE-2:;N9DOA-12*143805z4030.28N908859.28WAAsterisk app_rpt user <b>[Invalid object]</b></span><br style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">2012-06-04 15:00:22 UTC: <b><a href="http://aprs.fi/?c=raw&limit=&call=WB9UUS-R" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);outline-style:none;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">WB9UUS-R</a></b>>APSTAR,TCPIP*,qAC,CORE-2:;WB9UUS-12*150021z4030.38N908859.28WAAsterisk app_rpt user</span><br style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);white-space:nowrap;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">2012-06-04 15:13:33 UTC: <b><a href="http://aprs.fi/?c=raw&limit=&call=WB9UUS-R" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);outline-style:none;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">WB9UUS-R</a></b>>APSTAR,TCPIP*,qAC,CORE-2:;N9DOA-12*151333z4030.28N708859.28WAAsterisk app_rpt user <b>[Invalid object]</b></span><br style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">2012-06-04 15:52:32 UTC: <b><a href="http://aprs.fi/?c=raw&limit=&call=WB9UUS-R" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);outline-style:none;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">WB9UUS-R</a></b>>APSTAR,TCPIP*,qAC,CORE-2:;WB9UWA-12*155231z4030.18N708859.28WAAsterisk app_rpt user</span><br style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">2012-06-04 15:52:39 UTC: <b><a href="http://aprs.fi/?c=raw&limit=&call=WB9UUS-R" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);outline-style:none;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">WB9UUS-R</a></b>>APRS,TCPIP*,qAC,CORE-2:=4030.48N/08859.28WrPHG9580/AllStar Node 27468</span><br style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
</font></div><br></blockquote><div><br>The reason is that APRS object names must be padded on the right to be exactly 9 characters. WB9UUS-12 is 9 characters, but N9DOA-12 is only 8 --- you need to pad it out with spaces <span style></span>so the payload is:<br>
<br style><span style>;</span><font style size="1"><span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">N9DOA-12 *151333z4030.28N708859.28WAAsterisk app_rpt user<span></span></span></font></div>
</div><br>(note the extra space before the "*")<br><br></div></div></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux <a href="http://www.swcp.com/%7Erusso/" target="_blank">http://www.swcp.com/~russo/</a><br>
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