[aprssig] Lowercase callsigns in AX.25/APRS messages
Andre
aprs at pe1rdw.demon.nl
Fri Feb 17 16:24:59 EST 2012
Op 17-2-2012 21:58, Andrew P. schreef:
> In debugging my APRS client, I have noticed a few (very few) stations using lower case in their callsigns. Is this legal? It's obviously possible, since they are out there.
>
> Since they exist, should my application:
>
> 1. Match on their callsign using case-insensitive matching or case-sensitive?
>
> 2. Force users of my application to enter their own callsigns in uppercase?
>
> 3. Forcibly upshift their callsigns in the headers of forwarded/digipeated messages and/or displayed status tables?
>
> Example received from APRS-IS (I replaced my gateway's callsign with XXXXXX):
>
> }kc2yu-sn>APKRAM,TCPIP,XXXXXX*:/171917z4041.78N/07359.46W$sn
>
> Just curious how to handle these.
>
> Andrew Pavlin, KA2DDO
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
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if you recieve a lowercase call trough rf ax25 it should be discarded as
lowercase calls are against the AX25 specs, on APRS-IS all printable
characters are legal but a lot of software will force callsigns to be
entered in uppercase to keep the onair and APRS-IS callsign the same.
Technicale callsigns should be case sensative if both upper and
lowercase is alowed on the IS and probably would be safer as the
software alowing lowercase callsigns can be case sensative.
Altering their callsigns would be a big nono, only the servers are
alowed to do that, igates must pass everything recieved unaltered and
transmit only by insterting the } in front of the string to make it an
thirthparty frame.
73 Andre PE1RDW
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