[aprssig] Help with repeater beacon

[Guido Trentalancia]

Hello John,

did you manage to achieve what you needed ?

The very last thing I can think of is: have you tried to update the
firmware ? Nothing like that has been ever logged in the changes for any
new firmware release, but you never know, they might have fixed it
already and not logged it.

That would also explain the reason why it eventually works for some
people but not for others. Unfortunately I cannot test or help any
further than this. In any case the alternative format that I already
suggested you to use works for me at least with the latest firmware.

73,

Guido IZ6RDB

On Wed, 16/02/2011 at 20.33 -0500, John Gorkos wrote:
> Bob-
>   This seems broken in the Kenwood implementation.  Basically, I'll have to 
> double my transmit rate to get the appropriate information out there.  
> Actually, I don't see any way to actually make this work unless I change my 
> beacon callsign to "147.15NGA" and send a position packet that looks like 
> this:
> 147.15NGA>BEACON,WIDE2-1:111111z3414.21N/08409.60Wr147.150MHz T143 R60m 
> NET2000TU Cumming,GA de AB0OO
> Am I misunderstanding this?  It's highly likely...
> 
> On Wednesday, February 16, 2011 20:16:09 Guido Trentalancia wrote:
> > Hello John !
> > 
> > On Wed, 16/02/2011 at 17.37 -0500, John Gorkos wrote:
> > > We're having some problems with the "TUNE" function of D710s and D72s in
> > > the Atl area.
> > > 
> > > I'm beaconing the following text from my Tx/Igate:
> > > ;147.15NGA*111111z3414.21N/08409.60WrT143 R60m NET2000TU Cumming,GA
> > > which seems to match, per character, what's on the localinfo.html page:
> > > ;FFF.FFxyz*111111zDDMM.hhN/DDDMM.hhWrTnnn RXXm NETxxxxxx MTGxxxxx
> > > .........
> > 
> > Appears consistent with the specification for Frequency Objects.
> > 
> > The best specification, you can find it here:
> > 
> > http://webster-new.dmz.usna.edu/Users/aero/bruninga/aprs/freqspec.txt
> > 
> > > We can see the objects show up correctly in the station list of the 710s
> > > and 72s, but no amount of pushing the "tune" button does the trick. 
> > > Meanwhile, tune DOES work for stations that include their freq in their
> > > status text:
> > > KD4UYP-9>S3UV8R,WIDE1-1*,WIDE2-1,qAR,AB0OO-1:`oQhn*uk/]"72}147.075MHz=
> > 
> > Yes, this is consistent with what is implemented in the Kenwood TM-D710.
> > 
> > They have implemented what they call "QSY Function". And that works with
> > frequency information embedded in "the first 10 bytes of the existing
> > free-field position comment text or STATUS field".
> > 
> > So, if you want to tune, you have to send out beacons that report the
> > frequency as specified in the document mentioned above according to the
> > paragraph "APRS Frequency Formats" and not the paragraph "Frequency
> > Objects".
> > 
> > As a start, you can try:
> > >147.15 MHz T143 R60m And here you can write that it's in Cumming,GA
> > 
> > but that won't create an object for you. So it's two different features,
> > but you can use both of them if needed.
> > 
> > 73,
> > 
> > Guido IZ6RDB
>