[aprssig] APRS Messages and Operating Codes (Q & Z)

[Stephen H. Smith]

On 4/25/2011 12:32 PM, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote:
> On 4/25/2011 3:08 PM, Stephen H. Smith wrote:
>> [I've had far more message exchanges on 30M meters PSK63 APRS via the sound 
>> card APRS Messenger app (on the mobile PC) in one year, than in all the 
>> decades on two meters combined.]
>
> When you were driving around here on the Space Coast, you would have had more 
> messaging traffic on 2 meters, but I kept missing you!

Part of that was that I had my hands full driving my 87-year-old mother around 
on a vacation outing!  I just don't play radio when I have others in the car 
with me.

>
> I try to say "Hello" to every messaging-capable mobile that drives through 
> the area.  An amazing number of D7xx devices send back an "rej" response 
> indicating that their in-box is full. 

Around here (southern California) the in box fills up with bulletins and other 
stuff within an hour due to the volume of APRS traffic.  Practically no one 
bothers to go through the clumsy and distracting  process of deleting messages 
one-by-one on a D700 while driving, so the in box just fills up and bounces new 
messages.


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