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Greetings, all.<br><br>I've been looking at APRS messages I've been receiving, and noticing an alarming tendency towards mangled messages. It can't be just from my software not keeping up with the serial data stream, because I'm getting this on APRS-IS server connections (which, by their nature as TCP/IP connections, can't drop bytes in mid-stream). So, is there that great a frequency of garbled packets out there being forwarded by I-gates, or do we just have sloppy software (or sloppy manual data entry) putting garbaged messages out there? Here's some examples:<br><br>KA1GJU-3>APN382,UNCAN,WIDE2*,qAR,W1CLA-1:!!06 0F02@000-,-----(--,-- 02035 00000"7<br><br>WV9E>APW249,KC9DGP-10,N9MEA-6,K9ABC-1,WIDE3*,qAR,N9MXT-10:_113P0414c11s000g(00t032r000p0<0P000h30b09930wRS� <br><br>$GPRMC,11,A,4458.2127,N,08720.8152,W,0.000,0.0,120,2.2, W <br><br>WA9KJE-1>APU25N,WA9+JI,AB9FX-1,K9MOT-15*,qAR,N9MXT-10:@28163z4159.74N/08741.51W_22�.<00�100t040r000P000p000h87b10173/WX Chicago-Peet2100-All Sensors Nominal<br><br>DB0DLG-1>APNU19,WIDE2-2,qAS,DB3MA-2:!4830.78N10102�222<br><br>AB9FX-1>APNW01,KA9SCF-15,K9SA*,WIDE2,qAR,N9MXT-10:/2;1412z4156.52NT08745.66W&PHG4180 wx3in1 A=650�<br><br>WX0U-1>APN382,K0SUN-13,ETULSA,CLRWTR,WIDE3*,qAR,AC0JK-5:;HAMEXAM03*111111/3824.90N\09610.88W<br><br>KY2O-4>APTT4,K4AG-6,W4NVU-4,WIDE2*,WIDE2-1,qAS,N9LCK-10:!2505.77N/08026 51W-Key Largo Fill+in Digi<br><br>OE6PWE-11>APRSOE,TRACE3-3,qAS,OE6XLR-10:!4734.11N/014�4.5<br><br>G6UIM>APWW08,TCPP*,OZ1AHV-2*,qAR,OZ1AHV-2:;G3TQ/6 *11115026.94N/00334.92Wr050.750MHz T077 1.5M GB3TQ PAIGTON G0AZX!w+G!<br><br><br>Any suggestions for dealing with such packets would be appreciated.<br><br>Andrew Pavlin, KA2DDO<br> </div></body>
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