[aprssig] Mic-E Device Type Codes?

[Fred Eckert]

Lynn,

I am not too sure on this but I do have a VX-8R. I just transmitted a beacon if you would like to analyze it. KJ4LFJ-7. I have noted that the underscore _ character is automatically appended to the end of my beacon status text. Could this be the character you are interested in?

Fred KJ4LFJ

-----Original Message-----
From: "Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)" <ldeffenb at homeside.to>

Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:24:35 
To: TAPR APRS Mailing List<aprssig at tapr.org>
Subject: [aprssig] Mic-E Device Type Codes?


Greetings,

I've scoured the archives for this information that I KNOW I've seen in 
the past, but I didn't think I needed to know it then and it's not an 
easy thing to figure out search terms for, so here goes...

There is a trailing character representing the device type that Mic-E 
encoding devices place after their encoded position.  I've tracked down 
that a D7 uses '>' and a D710 uses '='.  I'm suspecting a D700 uses ']'.

Does anyone know what the Vx8 puts in this position, if anything?

Are there other Mic-E encoders that use other characters that we know of?

Confirmations and documentation pointers would be appreciated.

Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile

PS.  Here's a sample packet from a D7 showing the trailing >.  Well, not 
exactly trailing, it actually comes between the encoded position 
(lCPm^bv/) and the encoded altitude ("4'})

KJ4ERJ-8>2WUY7X,WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1,qAR,KJ4ERJ-2:`lCPm^bv/>"4'}


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