<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">I recently reconfigured my EGLNST digi to conform to WB4APR's latest</span><br style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">recommendation for Kantronics 8.3 or later firmware at</span><br style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://www.aprs.org/kpc3/kpc3+WIDEn.txt." style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(145, 54, 173); font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">http://www.aprs.org/kpc3/kpc3+WIDEn.txt.</a><br style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="font-family: Georgia; text-align:
 left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Things seem to work fine, except for the IRLP node object that I programmed,</span><br style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">which apparently aprs.fi has problem parsing. WB4APR's document suggests the</span><br style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">following format:</span><br style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
 255); ">;IRLP-4040*111111zDDMM.hhNIDDDMM.hhW0FFF.FFFMHz Tnnn CALLSIGN</span><br style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">... and what I entered is:</span><br style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">;IRLP-4397*111111z3522. NI08313. W0444.875MHz T131 K4RCC</span><br style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left;
 background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">I used spaces instead of hundredths of degrees for position ambiguity.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">My problem is that aprs.fi appears not to like the format. Viewing the raw</span><br style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">packets reveals:</span><br style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">2012-03-25
 22:05:09 UTC: EGLNST>APN383,qAR,N4NE-1:;IRLP-4397*111111z3522. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">NI08313. W0444.875MHz T131 K4RCC [Delayed or out-of-order packet (timestamp)]</span><br style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Is my formatting of the object message faulty, or does aprs.fi not parse it</span><br style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">correctly?</span><br style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left;
 background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Thanks in advance.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">73 de W4SKI</span><br style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br>Paul Yeager</td></tr></table>