[aprssig] IGate test needed

[Spider]

Bob,

I can tell you that UI-View will gate this without any problem.  We do this 
on FireNet all the time.  It is a non-issue with UI-View.  Can not speak for 
the rest.

Just some thoughts/comments:

a.  Although PHG is useful to some, as an avid APRS user in the field, I do 
not need to see this, it is not of any value to me and just takes up space 
(my opinion).  I suspect this to be true for 98% of all APRS users.
b. Why on earth have the Packet in standard format and then have the 
callsign lowercase....looks really bad.
c.  What is the ________  for?
d.  90% of the Igates are not going to gate these objects.
e.  I will be totally surprised that with will be acceptable on the APRS-IS. 
You will have a handful of folks that will
    whine like stuck pigs that they do not want this stuff on the APRS-IS. 
Good Luck!

73,

Jim, WA6OFT







----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Bruninga" <bruninga at usna.edu>
To: <aprssig at lists.tapr.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 8:53 AM
Subject: [aprssig] IGate test needed


> We need someone to test the IRLP to RF objects to see
> if they can be decoded on various APRS clients *over-the-
> air*.  The reason is, because they are all being injected into
> the APRS-IS with 7 character callsigns such as STN4090:
> Here is the raw packet as seen on FINDU:
>
> STN4090>APRS,qAO,IRLPGW:!4233.15NI07608.55W0PHG8760.442.850Mhz+71.9IDLE______kb2faf
>
> notice that this is not an OBJECT format, but a standard
> position report.  But it has a 7 character call in the AX.25
> pseudo header.  When this is sent back out over the air,
> in 3rd party format, it may or may not be decoded by all
> APRS clients.  We need to find out if any clients have
> problems.. especially the mobiles
>
> You can use FINDU to find all the IRLP nodes that are
> injecting their status into the APRS-IS...
>
> http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/symbol.cgi?icon=I0&limit=200
>
> Thanks
> Bob
>
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