[aprssig] What is "TNC Channel Switching"?

[Chris Moulding]

~ or | entered as text in APRS Messenger are filtered out before sending 
as the spec says that they shouldn't be sent over APRS as they are used 
as control characters for Kantronics TNCs.

I was under the impression that other APRS authors filtered them as well 
but I'm ready to be corrected.

By the way Raynet Messenger is another program based on APRS Messenger 
which uses a similar message format allowing CRC-16 checksum messages to 
be digipeated but allows a message length up to 2000 characters. The 
region of the world where it gets most use for emergency comms is South 
America so the lack of the tilde character doesn't appear to be a 
problem as far as I know.

Regards,

Chris, G4HYG

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On 11/04/14 15:57, Andrew Pavlin wrote:
> So, this is an ugly but legitimate reservation of this character. I assume APRSMessenger doesn't support Spanish language (or others using the tilde in normal text) or Unicode?
>
> Andrew, KA2DDO
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry