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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Greetings.<br><br>This is a question aimed to Bob, but the rest can chime in.<br><br>I started implementing in my program the new symbols as defined in <a href="http://aprs.org/aprs11/symbols-new.txt," target="_blank">http://aprs.org/aprs11/symbols-new.txt</a> , but I ran into an interesting glitch.<br><br>It seems that some of the users in my local area are using the red diamond symbol (\a) instead of the black diamond symbol (\&) for D-Star repeaters, using a 'D' overlay. This looks funny, because the new symbols specify 'Da' as the code for Dutch ARES (versus '\a' for US ARES). Example: KC2TXX B at 39 42.40N 075 07.36W<br><br>Presumably, this is an error on their part (they should be using the Gateway symbol with overlay, not the ARES symbol with overlay), but how pervasive is this error? Should I be supporting new symbols yet? Or are new symbols not approved yet, but just an idea to toss around until a consensus is reached?<br><br>Just curious.....<br><br>Andrew Pavlin, KA2DDO<br>author of YAAC<br> </div></body>
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