[aprssig] What is Generating These Packets

[Lee Bengston]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Pete Loveall AE5PL Lists
<hamlists at ametx.com> wrote:
> This is one of many packets (over 250 per hour) gated to APRS-IS by IGates all over the world (so the qAR point of entry is different on almost every one).
>
> APRSIS>RXTLM-1,TCPIP,qAR,KD8IAY:T#113,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,00000000
>
> Does anyone know what software is generating these packets which have no identification and use an invalid TOCALL (not APxxxx and improperly using a SSID) and TCPIP in the path?  Because the point of entry is very diverse, it is not being generated by a single station but by a single piece of software.
>

They appear to be telemetry packets generated by APRX.

http://ham.zmailer.org/oh2mqk/aprx/

Below are a few packets from findu.com.

KD8IAY-1>APRX22,qAR,KD8IAY:!4147.06NT08614.67W&Ubuntu / GE MVS / T2 /
Aprx v2.02 I-gate
KD8IAY-1>APOT21,WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1,qAR,KD8IAY:!/9Btc8`C6# st 12.9V 37F
KD8IAY-1>RXTLM-2,TCPIP,qAR,KD8IAY:T#117,0.3,1.4,2.0,2.0,6.0,00000000
KD8IAY-1>APRX22,qAR,KD8IAY:!4147.06NT08614.67W&Ubuntu / GE MVS / T2 /
Aprx v2.02 I-gate
KD8IAY-1>RXTLM-2,TCPIP,qAR,KD8IAY::KD8IAY-1
:EQNS.0,0.005,0,0,0.005,0,0,1,0,0,1,0,0,1,0
KD8IAY-1>RXTLM-2,TCPIP,qAR,KD8IAY:T#334,0.4,0.3,1.0,1.0,1.0,00000000

Regards,
Lee - K5DAT