[aprssig] Yag Tracker

Jason Rausch jason at ke4nyv.com
Mon Jan 2 14:37:16 EST 2012


Heikki,

We're looking at going with APYTxx (YT for YagTracker) and that gives us up to 99 revisions :o)

Jason Rausch - KE4NYV
RPC Electronics, LLC
www.rpc-electronics.com


--- On Mon, 1/2/12, Heikki Hannikainen <hessu at hes.iki.fi> wrote:

> From: Heikki Hannikainen <hessu at hes.iki.fi>
> Subject: Re: [aprssig] Yag Tracker
> To: "Bob Bruninga" <bruninga at usna.edu>
> Cc: "TAPR APRS Mailing List" <aprssig at tapr.org>
> Date: Monday, January 2, 2012, 2:33 PM
> On Mon, 2 Jan 2012, Bob
> Bruninga  wrote:
> 
> >>> Also, does a Yag Tracker have its own
> tocall...
> > 
> >> I am not sure Bob has assigned one to the
> YagTracker...
> > 
> > Normally it is requested by the designer after
> checking the liast and looking at what is on the air...
> > 
> > http://aprs.org/aprs11/tocalls.txt
> > 
> > I notice that APYxxx only shows Yaesu right now, but I
> do not know how they are asigning them.  Can anyone do
> a search?
> > 
> > You might consider starting with APYAGx for your first
> 10 versions.
> 
> If you have allocated APYxxx to Yaesu, it might be a good
> idea to keep it that way, as APYAGx will be detected by
> Yaesu by many.
> 
> APGTxx would be free, it would give more than 10 version
> numbers, and would avoid the requirement to come up with a
> second identifier when firmware version 11 comes out (which
> would slow down detections as the database grows
> unnecessarily, and add to the work load of everyone
> maintaining detection code and adding these detections
> manually).
> 
> It would be really neat to have these maintained and
> published in a machine-readable format somewhere so that it
> would be easy to keep detections up-to-date.
> 
>   - Hessu
> 
> 
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