[aprssig] IGATE beacon format?

[Pete Loveall AE5PL Lists]

javAPRS does not send anything to the network.  It is a receive-only Java applet for displaying APRS in a web browser.

The IGate adjunct to javAPRSSrvr (a Java stand-alone application completely unrelated to javAPRS) can be configured to send the IGate station capabilities packet periodically and will also properly respond to the ?IGATE? query with the IGate station capabilities packet.  These packets are described in chapter 15 of the APRS 1.01 specification found on the TAPR web site.  The use of these packets predates javAPRSSrvr and most IGate software support them in one form or another.

73,

Pete Loveall AE5PL
pete at ae5pl dot net

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Kantarjiev
> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 11:25 PM
> 
> I think that javAPRS initiated the practice of regularly sending a
> beacon
> tha begins "<IGATE" with some status after it. This appears to be
> another
> one of those undocumented "APRS standard practices"; the documentation
> indicates how to configure the status beacon, but doesn't indicate what
> get sent.
> 
> I'd like to teach aprs4r to similar beacons, since I know there are
> people
> mining the ARPS-IS for them to try to map out igate locations. Would
> someone
> please provide the details (and perhaps put them somewhere that a
> google
> search will find them)?