[aprssig] emergency beacon called wide1-1 today

Sat Mar 14 22:36:34 EDT 2009

Hi guys,

 I did a little snooping of these packets to see if any of this stuff stuck (in my head), and I may or may not be confused.  So am I getting warm?

 It's Saturday 8:40 pm and I know I'm after the fact and not an expert, but looking at the raw packets on Findu with the time stamp (...&time=1)

1 - I don't know the TT#, so,   is this an APRS message?
20090314025953,WIDE1-1>N9MXQ-8,WIDE2-1,qAR,W9DRR-10:>TinyTrak3 v1.1

  ANYWAY, on the next one, isn't this a Mic-E packet (it "looks" like one)?
20090314143643,WIDE1-1>N789PH,WIDE2-1,qAR,W9DRR-10:`tR7+{A'/"S)}KD0CVN-1 RV-9A
  THEREFORE isn't the "N789PH" Mic-E DATA (destination address field - Latitude digits) that only LOOKS like an "N" number ??
  Checking the spec, "N" isn't a valid Mic-E Destination Address field character (if I read the spec correctly M, N and O are skipped) - this is mangled data, no ??

Then, these next two are NOT in a compresssed format!  Can TT-3 do both?  
20090314160005,WIDE1-1>N9MXQ-8,WIDE2-1,qAR,W9DRR-10:!4215.42N/08850.45W>001/000/A=000764
20090314160300,WIDE1-1>N9MXQ-8,WIDE2-1,qAR,W9DRR-10:!4216.03N/08851.01W>326/007/A=000803
   I didn't bother to check, but they do look near me somewhere.

Now let's look at the time [my punctuation] of that second "N" number packet:
2009 03-14 14:36:43   [cont next line]
,WIDE1-1>N789PH,WIDE2-1,qAR,W9DRR-10:`tR7+{A'/"S)}KD0CVN-1 RV-9A

Then, go to the findu Packets for the 'real' station call "N789PH" 
around the SAME time:
2009 03-14 14:36:40   [cont next line]
,N789PH>TR1P3Y,N9ZIP-15,N8IYX-4,WIDE2*,qAR,NK8X-3:`tW$+qA'/"S*}

  Now, comparing the two Mic-E Information data (Longitude digits) fields, WIDE1-1     `tR7+{A'/"S)  
N789PH      `tW$+qA'/"S*}
  I realize that it is too late in the day to attempt this field and quit.

  Is this a matter of confusing two different stations because of the mangled Mic-E Latitude (Destination address field) data - that "looks" like the N-number ?  Huh?

My brain hurts.
--
73, Steve, K9DCI
You know that sea of entropy we were going to drown in?  Well, upon closer examination, it turned out to be ignorance.  S. Noskowicz 1987

--- On Sat, 3/14/09, Rusty Hemenway <nnn0fjk at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Rusty Hemenway <nnn0fjk at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [aprssig] emergency beacon called wide1-1 today
> To: "'TAPR APRS Mailing List'" <aprssig at tapr.org>
> Date: Saturday, March 14, 2009, 8:21 PM
> Is there someone in the area that can give him a call and
> help him set it up
> correctly? 
> 
>  
> 
> From: aprssig-bounces at tapr.org
> [mailto:aprssig-bounces at tapr.org] On Behalf
> Of Greg D.
> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 5:43 PM
> To: aprssig at tapr.org
> Subject: Re: [aprssig] emergency beacon called wide1-1
> today
> 
>  
> 
> Last position (about 30 min ago) shows the plane in front
> of the hangar at
> the Anoka County airport.  Presumably he'll be home
> soon.  Google says it's
> about a 20 minute commute.
> 
> Greg  KO6TH
> 
> 
> > From: ve7gdh at rac.ca
> > To: aprssig at tapr.org
> > Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:17:29 -0700
> > Subject: Re: [aprssig] emergency beacon called wide1-1
> today
> > 
> > Chuck W3YNI wrote...
> > 
> > Subject: Re: [aprssig] emergency beacon called wide1-1
> today
> > 
> > > Actually spoke to some folks from CAP. Gave them
> what I believed
> > > was the tailnumber at the time (now confirmed)
> along with last known
> > > coordinates from the beacon.
> > >
> > > Guy I spoke to is a ham and knew what APRS is -
> he sent it up the
> > > chain.
> > 
> > and posted by Rusty (K1GGS?)...
> > 
> > >
> WIDE1-1>N789PH,WIDE2-1,qAR,W9DRR-10:`tR7+{A'/"S)}KD0CVN-1
> RV-9A
> > 
> > The odd thing is that the "callsign" is
> WIDE1-1 and N789PH (presumably
> > the tail number) is the destination instead of the
> "callsign". The
> > owners callsign appears to be KD0CVN as indicated in
> the status text.
> > Don't know why he would include an SSID there!
> Also according to the
> > status text, it's an RV-9A.
> > 
> > I know the above doesn't show a path of WIDE1-1,
> but looking at the
> > tracker that IS using a "callsign" of
> N789PH...
> > 
> > http://aprs.fi/?c=raw&call=N789PH&limit=1000
> > 
> > it is using a path of WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1. Surely if it
> really is a plane
> > wouldn't use a path of WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1 - hi!
> > 
> > Also, looking at
> http://aprs.fi/?c=raw&call=WIDE1-1&limit=50
> > it is possible that there is more than one station
> with a misconfigured
> > "callsign" of WIDE1-1.
> > 
> > 2009-03-14 14:36:43 UTC:
> > WIDE1-1>N789PH,WIDE2-1,qAR,W9DRR-10
> > :`tR7+{A'/"S)}KD0CVN-1 RV-9A [Invalid
> characters in mic-e packet]
> > 
> > There's that "KD0CVN-1 RV-9A" again...
> or possibly it's one and the same
> > beacon. What a tangled web it is!
> > 
> > The callsign of WIDE1-1 must have been programmed in
> accidentally. While 
> > it is possible that a mangled MIC-E packet may be
> involved for the 
> > "emergency" beacon, perhaps it would be a
> good recommendation for planes 
> > to not use MIC-E to lessen the chance of a mangled
> MIC-E packet making 
> > it look like an emergency beacon. Just a thought.
> > 
> > 73 es cul - Keith VE7GDH
> > --
> > "I may be lost, but I know exactly where I
> am!"
> > 
> > 
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