[aprssig] Time stamps and Mic-E

Jason KG4WSV kg4wsv at gmail.com
Mon Oct 16 17:55:16 EDT 2017


On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Matthew Chambers
<mchambers at showmeham.info> wrote:
> I have a script that polls APRS.FI
> every 5 minutes and if the timestamp on my most recent location packet

I just took a quick look at APRS101.pdf, and Mic-E does not include a
timestamp.  Any timestamp you are seeing at aprs.fi is the timestamp
applied by aprs.fi.

I'm sure the aprs.fi timestamp is accurate, but if you're looking for
the timestamp inside the packet it isn't there.

-Jason
kg4wsv



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