[aprssig] APRS Hardware Survey

[Ben Rampling]

On 21/10/2011, at 12:25 AM, Stephen H. Smith wrote:

> The absurdly small representation of Kenwood D700's and TH-D72s, not to mention the complete lack of representation for any TH-D7s or D710s, indicates a major flaw in this kind of analysis.

Yeap, they are all showing up in the 5376 MIC-E entries (at the top of the table).

> Further, how is Firenet showing up in this list?   Firenet is essentially a clone of an APRS-IS server operating outside the APRS-IS (rather than a user transmitting to the APRS-IS).      Is someone gating data from the Firenet server into the APRS-IS,  making it appear as a virtual user?     If so, wouldn't the station doing the cross-gating show up instead as the "source"?    What's going on here??

Here are some of the APF* packets:

FIREA-2>APFIRE,TCPIP*,qAC,Firenet:>191646zC=KK5WM,A=63248582493080586,F=80582849956405428,V=2.2.0
F6KOH-4>APFD76,TCPIP*,qAC,T2FRANCE:!4930.50N/00009.75E&PHG5450/Gateway HF VHF UHF http://www.shtsf.com
F8KGD-3>APFD77,F5ZBC-3*,WIDE2-1,qAR,F1BIV-1:;F5ZDO *111111z4842.33N/00252.00Een montage 430.350 MHz +9.4 JN18KR
F5ZXE-3>APFD83,WIDE5-3,qAR,IW5AKT:!4312.44NV00557.18E# (Digi aprs vhf du Grand Cap REF83) 2
F5ZFL-4>APFD74,WIDE2-1,qAR,HB9AR-10:!4547.59N/00606.28E#PHG3180/B2 W2 JN35BS Ex F6BIG-2
F5ZZQ-3>APFD11,F1ZVN-3,EA5RCD-15*,WIDE4-1,qAR,EA5AZW:!4247.41NV00210.90E# ( Relais APRS VHF Le Clat dep 11 ) 1
F5GJJ-4>APFD38,F5KTJ-3*,WIDE2-1,qAR,F1JMN:;F5GJJ    *310620z4519.38N\00531.65E?63 In 10 Minutes
F5SCD-4>APFR67,qAS,DB0LHR-10:!4830.00NS00728.52E#PHG2060 W3 TEST UIDIGI FILL-IN New-N Paradigm
F5KBD-3>APFD01,qAR,F6IKY-2:>PHG3640 SYSOP F1MFN
F5ZBC-3>APFD02,WIDE3-3,qAR,F1BIV-1:=4915.10N/00317.80E#PHG3260/DIGI_NED-DOS0.4.0:Digi de BLANZY Dept 02 JN19PG
F5BRF-4>APFD16,WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1,qAR,F5BRF-3:T#414,131,020,255,080,051,00000011
F6HOR-3>APFD68,WIDE2-2,qAS,DB0LHR-10:!4806.01N/00714.11E# (DIGI APRS en test (UIDIGI 1.9B3))
F1ZDH-3>APFD04,F5ZZJ-4*,WIDE1,qAr,F6FFK-3:;431.150*111111z4358.11N/00546.56ErF1ZTQ
F8KLY-3>APFD69,WIDE3-3,qAR,F1JMN:!4545.56ND00448.96E#PHG3730W3,DIGI APRS RADIO-CLUB LYON FOURVIERE
F5ZVX-2>APFD57,WIDE,qAR,DB0XIT:!4838.28N/00708.89E#PHG5530/Radio-Club Saverne (1)
F1ZVN-3>APFD09,F1ZCJ-3*,WIDE4-4,qAS,F4AUY:=4234.85NV00148.55E#PHG5740 RELAIS ADRASEC09 L HOSPITALET
F4ETJ-1>APFD17,WIDE1-1,WIDE2-2,qAR,F5BRF-3:>bienvenue sur le Diji de Salignac/Charente

Does this mean something is replacing the on-air TOCALL with an APF* TOCALL? This particular call seems to flap between APRS and APFD09:

http://aprs.fi/?c=raw&call=F6DEV-13&limit=50&view=normal

Regards,
Ben Rampling VK6IC

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