[aprssig] EchoLink APRS-IS Ojbects Mothballed

[Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)]

Have you looked at the Item-In-Message format proposed for APRS 1.2?  
You could support a different APRS message trigger (node-obj) that 
formats the data according to:

http://aprs.org/aprs12/item-in-msg.txt

Then as APRS clients get upgraded to support it (I'm planning to in my 
APRSISCE for Windows Mobile), your server will be ready to deliver!

Great job!  Do you know if you'll be able to keep the service running or 
do you want to give the source to a site that can keep it hosted once 
you're happy with it?  You'll obviously want the messages addressed to a 
suitable alias rather than your callsign, at least.

Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ

PS.  All of the APRS 1.2 Proposal are at http://aprs.org/aprs12.html

William McKeehan wrote:
> As a follow-up to the discussion about the EchoLink objects, I wrote a bit of
> Perl code to process their xml and query the results.
>
> Try sending an APRS message "node" to KI4HDU-12. It will tell you the nearest
> node to you that it calculates as within range.
>
> Currently the process will only send the message once, so if you're on RF and
> don't get the first copy, it will not re-try...an obvious area for improvement
> to the process.
>
> The code is in Perl and I will give it to anyone that would like it.
>