[aprssig] vx-8 mic-e type code & ui-view32

[Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)]

You're looking at a VX-8G.  The original VX-8 has the trailing blank.

 From http://aprs.org/aprs12/mic-e-types.txt

`......_b  Yaesu VX-8 (b = SPACE) (message capable)
`......_"  Yaesu FTM-350 (message capable)
`......_#  Yaesu VX-8G   (message capable)   [new in 2010]

Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32


On 4/5/2011 12:54 PM, Keith VE7GDH wrote:
> Hessu OH7LZB wrote...
>
>> UI-View32 strips spaces from the end of a packet before passing it to 
>> the APRS-IS. VX-8 sends mic-e packets with a space in the end, thanks 
>> to the mic-e type code allocation of "`......_b" (b = SPACE).
>> e.g. http://aprs.fi/?c=raw&call=KB3TBX-7&limit=50&view=hex
>
> The space is hex 20, right?
>
> Under what circumstances does a VX-8 send a space at the end? Is it 
> always,
> or only if the user doesn't take certain action? I'm looking at 
> beacons from a
> VX-8GR and don't see the space.
>
> http://aprs.fi/?c=raw&call=ve7pge-8&limit=25&view=hex
>
> 73 es cul - Keith VE7GDH
> -- 
> "I may be lost, but I know exactly where I am!"
>
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