[aprssig] Making APRS text messages longer

Heikki Hannikainen hessu at hes.iki.fi
Wed Dec 1 09:00:59 EST 2021


On Thu, 25 Nov 2021, Robert Bruninga wrote:

> The problem is the 50,000 Kenwoods and Yaesu APRS radios that
> could not display these messages.
> APRS messaging was designed for single line AND paragraph messaging.

I think it would be good to advance the state of the art a little bit in 
this field. It is certainly possible for modern APRS applications to make 
sure they don't send long messages to those old radios, while still 
allowing sending longer messages to new APRS devices which can receive 
them.

   - Hessu




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