[aprssig] spaces in object names

Pierre Thibaudeau ve2prt at sympatico.ca
Thu Aug 13 08:58:49 EDT 2009


Today, 08:39 -0400, Steve Dimse wrote:

>    No, but there are item names being transmitted with 1 to 7 characters
>    (trailing spaces not required but not prohibited), and there are real
>    stations being transmitted without trailing spaces. That is the issue.

Steve,

Object names *must* be exactly 9 caracter long. If you look at the 
following: http://aprs.fi/?c=raw&call=ve2prt-5
you will see that "test" is illegal and "test_*   " is valid.
No such "Invalid object" flag on findu.com, but nevertheless the "test" 
did not show on findu.com.

'73 - Pierre
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Pierre Thibaudeau
VA2RKA/VA2RKB/VE2RIO/VE2RVR/VE2RQF/VE2RTO/VE2LKL/VE2TXD sysadmin




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