[aprssig] Low-level packet info
scott at opentrac.org
scott at opentrac.org
Sun Nov 7 15:41:45 EST 2004
When I started working on my OpenTracker project, I discovered that there's
little reliable documentation on the low-level details of 1200 baud packet
radio. Even the AX.25 spec (V2 anyway) was flawed, to the point that if you
followed its instructions on bit stuffing, it'd never work.
I documented a lot of this stuff in my source code as I figured it out, and
I finally got around to writing it up in a more accessible form. I've
posted the document at:
http://n1vg.net/packet/index.php
If anyone has any corrections or additions, let me know. Also, if you've
got known-good example code for the FCS calculation, send me a link - there
are plenty of incorrect code samples on the web. (Thanks to John Hansen,
W2FS, for providing the correct example that I based my code on.)
And on a completely unrelated note, the OpenTracker now supports __GLL
sentences, for those of you with ancient GPS receivers...
Scott
N1VG
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