[aprssig] How to Send to the APRS IS

[Pete Loveall AE5PL Lists]

The dupe algorithm in the servers (and, I suspect, aprs.fi) is based on a 30 second -sliding- window and is individual packet-specific.  This means that, for instance, what appears to be inconsistent in your example is actually very consistent.  Packet #3 is a duplicate of packet #1 (29 seconds apart). Packet #2 does -not- replace packet #1 in the dupe check algorithm.  Packets are checked based solely on the sender callsign-SSID, the destination callsign (SSID ignored), and data without regard to later packets with different data (each packet is consider individually because that is how you prevent loops).  This is as designed and described at www.aprs-is.net

73,

Pete Loveall AE5PL
pete at ae5pl dot net

> -----Original Message-----
> From: aprssig [mailto:aprssig-bounces at tapr.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Rich
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2017 3:59 AM
> To: aprssig at tapr.org
> Subject: Re: [aprssig] How to Send to the APRS IS
> 
> And this lot I have no idea - they are all different positions
> 
> Unless it is time based
> 
> 2017-05-10 18:53:58 AEST: VK4TEC-
> 9>APZ001,TCPIP*,qAS,VK4TEC:!2720.21S/15302.65E> [Duplicate position
> packet]
> 2017-05-10 18:54:08 AEST: VK4TEC-
> 9>APZ001,TCPIP*,qAS,VK4TEC:!2720.20S/15302.65E> [Duplicate position
> packet]
> 2017-05-10 18:54:27 AEST: VK4TEC-
> 9>APZ001,TCPIP*,qAS,VK4TEC:!2720.21S/15302.64E> [Duplicate position
> packet]