[aprssig] Ham Radio MOBILE Traveler PL-FIND device?

[Robert Bruninga]

Yes for the way to ANNOUNCE voice repeater freqs and tones using an APRS
object at a repater, you simply load the BTEXT and LTEXTs with the format
for  the Repeater Frequency Object.

The page http://aprs.org/localinfo.html tells you how.

For an old KPC3?  If it does not have any LTEXTS, then I think you can only
do the singl BTEXT?  And that then has to have the digis own APRS info in
it.

Im not sure when Kantronics introduced the separate (4) LTEXTS.

Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: aprssig [mailto:aprssig-bounces at tapr.org] On Behalf Of Peter Laws
N5UWY
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 4:44 PM
To: TAPR APRS Mailing List
Subject: Re: [aprssig] Ham Radio MOBILE Traveler PL-FIND device?

I am not much of an APRS admin but I am in a position to be able to change
the config on our local APRS digipeater (a KPC3notplus colocated with our
repeaters).  From looking at APRS.fi's idea of our raw packets, I'm pretty
sure we aren't sending out the info on our repeaters.

1) Can that be done on a KPC3notplus?  (i.e., no memory/config limitation in
that old hardware that would preclude it).

2) Is there a website that would concoct the right string based on me
feeding it the parameters?  Barring that, is there a *canonical* place where
I can look it up and figure out the string myself?



On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 12:52 PM, Tom Hayward <esarfl at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 9:35 AM, John D. Hays <john at hays.org> wrote:
>>
>> I think a much better approach would be to use an improved beacon type.
>> The message should contain:
>>
>> LAT/LONG (Approximate or Actual)
>> Output Freq:  Mhz. with a minimum scale of up to 5 digits after the
>> decimal point (e.g.  440.00625) Input Freq; Mhz. with a minimum scale
>> of up to 5 digits after the decimal point (e.g.  440.00625)
>> Mode(s):  FM, NFM, D-STAR, DMR, Fusion, CODEC2, etc.
>> Input signalling:  CTCSS: 123.0, DCS: 44, Color: 1, ...
>> Callsign:  W1AW  or "W1AW   C", ...
>> Comment: Other information
>
>
> John,
>
> It's unclear to how this differs from the current spec:
> http://www.aprs.org/info/freqspec.txt
> Are you just suggesting adding identifiers for the digital modes and
> their respective access control systems to this spec?
>
> Tom KD7LXL
>
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