[aprssig] Emergency Beacons
Robert Bruninga
bruninga at usna.edu
Tue Nov 23 08:30:26 EST 2004
>I made an opps earlier today. I thought I had setup my
>D700 with a status of 'TEST' before I hit the "Emergency"
>status but it appears it didn't send the "TEST" part.
Thanks for reminding us all of this error. Let me remind
everyone else:::
Some "aprs" clone software does not even support STATUS.
And since a single APRS EMERGENCY packet triggers alarms
for EVERYONE, the best rule is never-ever send out a test
emergency packet except on a NON-APRS frequency into a
dummy load where you are guaranteed that no one will
receive it.
STATUS is dispayed separately from a POSIT and the
EMERGENCY bit is in the POSIT.... So again, NEVER
send out an emergency packet unless it is a REAL
emergency.
Thanks, for reminding us all of this operations scenario.
Bob
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