[aprssig] Kenwood APRS AX.25 packet passing

[Andrew P.]

Interesting question. In APRS mode, the Kenwoods pass the messages in TNC command-mode format to the serial port (terminated by carriage return and line feed), so a binary non-APRS message might be really garbled (I haven't looked at the command-mode output of a TNC2 receiving non-APRS traffic in a while); I'll have to try that.

Andrew Pavlin, KA2DDO
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-----Original Message-----
From: lawrence labranche <capdiamont at yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:18:42 
To: <aprssig at tapr.org>
Subject: [aprssig] Kenwood APRS AX.25 packet passing



Hello,
 When Kenwood APRS radios are in APRS mode, what happens to AX.25 that are nonAPRS pid with valid CRC? Does it drop them? Can it pass them to the serial port for further decode? Or does it have to be in nonAPRS TNC mode? I hope to keep the APRS mode still active while playing with alternative nets. 

Lawrence LaBranche
KI6ZQY