[aprssig] BEACON - APRS or Not?

[Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)]

What are the stations and/or the contents of the packet.  If you give us 
one or the other, we'll be better able to answer your questions.

Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ

Shawn Stoddard wrote:
> I have been working now and then on an APRS parser. During my testing 
> I have had the opportunity to review in great detail some of the 
> packets being transmitted in my vicinity. Two of the local digipeaters 
> periodically transmit a packet to a destination address of BEACON. Per 
> the APRS 1.01 specification this is one of the APRS destination 
> addresses. Due to that I assumed the contents of the packet should be 
> a valid APRS packet of some type, a status packet perhaps. Am I 
> thinking down the correct path?
>
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