On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Jim Duuuude <telesistant@hotmail.com> wrote:

Boy, *that* was just painfully obvious... (NOT!)

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 www.aprs.org.

Okay, I'll fix it. :-)

Excellent.

Thanks for letting me know.

NP.

From: tom.km5vy@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 10:44:03 -0600
To: rpt2@chuck.midlandsnetworking.com
CC: kc9gqr@gmail.com; app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org
Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] APRS TT and APRS BEACON rate on ALLSTAR LINK..

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Chuck Henderson <rpt2@chuck.midlandsnetworking.com> wrote:

APRSTT on my systems works for some call signs but not for some others.

Here is an example from the aprs.fi raw log.

Can anyone shed some light on why N9DOA shows up as "[Invalid object]"?

Is it a problem with aprs.fi or with the code in app_rpt, or with the way I setup rpt.conf?

Chuck

2012-06-04 14:05:58 UTC: WB9UUS-R>APRS,TCPIP*,qAC,CORE-2:=4030.48N/08859.28WrPHG9580/AllStar Node 27468
2012-06-04 14:06:08 UTC: WB9UUS-R>APSTAR,TCPIP*,qAC,CORE-2:;WB9UUS-12*140608z4030.38N708859.28WAAsterisk app_rpt user
2012-06-04 14:38:05 UTC: WB9UUS-R>APSTAR,TCPIP*,qAC,CORE-2:;N9DOA-12*143805z4030.28N908859.28WAAsterisk app_rpt user [Invalid object]
2012-06-04 15:00:22 UTC: WB9UUS-R>APSTAR,TCPIP*,qAC,CORE-2:;WB9UUS-12*150021z4030.38N908859.28WAAsterisk app_rpt user
2012-06-04 15:13:33 UTC: WB9UUS-R>APSTAR,TCPIP*,qAC,CORE-2:;N9DOA-12*151333z4030.28N708859.28WAAsterisk app_rpt user [Invalid object]
2012-06-04 15:52:32 UTC: WB9UUS-R>APSTAR,TCPIP*,qAC,CORE-2:;WB9UWA-12*155231z4030.18N708859.28WAAsterisk app_rpt user
2012-06-04 15:52:39 UTC: WB9UUS-R>APRS,TCPIP*,qAC,CORE-2:=4030.48N/08859.28WrPHG9580/AllStar Node 27468

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 so the payload is:

;N9DOA-12 *151333z4030.28N708859.28WAAsterisk app_rpt user

(note the extra space before the "*")