[aprssig] Curious about bogus packets on Findu

[Stephen H. Smith]

  On 9/30/2010 3:13 PM, Robert Bruninga wrote:
> I think I might disagree with your conclusion.
>
>> Another 700 bug (is there any end to them????)
>> I have observed... hyper-jumps in switching
>> to standalone "APRS" operation after several
>> hours(and hundreds of miles) of operation in
>> "PACKET" mode with a computer.
>> Apparently the D700 caches the last GPS value
>> transmitted during standalone operation.  When
>> you exit the computer/Packet mode, the first
>> beacon in APRS mode will the location where
>> APRS mode was previously stopped; i.e. hundreds of
>> miles behind you!
> I don't think that is a bug...  It is simply Life.  The radio
> can only remember what it knows.  When it is in packet mode, it
> is simply passing data of which it has no involvement.  When in
> APRS mode, it remembers its last position.  This is what one
> would expect.
>
> Or am I missing something...

YES.  On startup it should first attempt to read from a live GPS on the GPS 
port, for a current position, instead of regurgitating a cached one that could 
be hours or days old.    What's weird about this bug is that the GPS indicator 
is flashing, indicating that the radio has detected a live GPS, even as it is 
sending obsolete, cached data.


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