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<DIV>In addition, two decimal digits is easily handled in the one byte-value limit, so it looks just lazy.<BR><BR>73, Steve, K9DCI USN (Vet) MOT (Ret) Ham (Yet)</DIV>
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<DIV id=yiv1908483631>The decimal points are NOT in the spec. -Chuck<BR><BR>
<DIV class=yiv1908483631gmail_quote>On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Andrew P. <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="http://us.mc1126.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=andrewemt@hotmail.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:andrewemt@hotmail.com">andrewemt@hotmail.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class=yiv1908483631gmail_quote>Whoops. I take that back. Here's a local guy near my house doing it.<BR><BR>WA3NOA-RI>RXTLM-2,TCPIP,qAR,WA3NOA-5:T#043,0.2,0.0,1.0,0.0,0.0,00000000<BR><BR>By the way, what's the RXTLM destination code for? I'll have to ask him (he's in my local ARES group).<BR><BR>Andrew Pavlin, KA2DDO<BR>------Original Message------<BR>From: Steve Dimse<BR>To: <A href="http://us.mc1126.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=aprssig@tapr.org" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</A><BR>Sent: Mar 27, 2013 4:09 PM<BR>Subject: Re: [aprssig] Is floating point telemetry allowed in APRS?<BR><BR><BR>The spec is not fluid that way. If it says telemetry should look like<BR><BR>T#005,199,000,255,073,123,01101001<BR><BR>sending<BR><BR>T#005,199.1,000,255,073,123,01101001<BR><BR>is not within the spec, and many parsers will
reject the packet outright, others might truncate, still others might crash. The results are undefined and therefore should not be used. The whole point of the spec was to have data that everyone could understand in the same way.<BR><BR>People that have non-standard needs are supposed to use the user-defined part of the spec which allows for any data one might need without causing problems in other parsers.<BR><BR>Can you give an example of such a packet?<BR><BR>Steve K4HG<BR><BR><BR><BR>On Mar 27, 2013, at 4:01 PM, Charles Blackburn wrote:<BR><BR>> that is a good question, although i would assume that you could just drop the fraction and be done with it.<BR>><BR>> charlie<BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> aprssig mailing list<BR>> <A href="http://us.mc1126.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=aprssig@tapr.org" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</A><BR>> <A
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