<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div><div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Larry's plagiarism of somebody's philosophy:<div><br></div>Everybody should believe in something - I believe I will have another drink!<div><br></div>I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy!!<div><br></div><div>Q: What is the burning question on the mind of every dyslexic existentialist?</div><div>A: Is there a dog?</div></div></div><br><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From Heikki Hannikainen <hessu@hes.iki.fi> <br>Date: 15/02/2014 6:40 PM (GMT+10:00) <br>To TAPR APRS Mailing List <aprssig@tapr.org> <br>Subject Re: [aprssig] "no sym yet" icon + compressed packets? <br> <br><br>On Sat, 15 Feb 2014, Stephen H. Smith wrote:<br><br>> On 2/14/2014 11:07 PM, Paul Bramscher wrote:<br>>> Forgot to add -- my station, and the others that get 'no sym yet', seem<br>>> to all be passing compressed-format packets. So maybe that's a factor<br>>> also. It's unclear to me how to turn off compression on my D710, as an<br>>> experiment, so see if that's his issue.<br>><br>> 3) Mic-E format is notorious for getting mangled by some out-dated igate <br>> software that attempts to convert it to plain-text before passing it to the <br>> APRS-Internet System. (Rather than just passing the Mic-E packet as-is to <br>> the APRS-IS.)<br>><br>> Are the "raw packet" displays on findu or APRS.fi showing the typical Mic-E <br>> gibberish, or are you seeing something that looks like plain-text lat/long <br>> values in your igated packets?<br><br>The mic-e packets seem to be getting mangled. Some packets have<br><br> symboltable: /<br> symbolcode: -<br><br>/- is correct for the house.<br><br>Some packets with the 0x1C byte missing (mangled by broken igate) get <br>this:<br><br> symboltable: ]<br> symbolcode: -<br><br>which is quite invalid indeed.<br><br>http://aprs.fi/?c=raw&call=KD0KZE&limit=5&view=decoded<br><br>The aprs.fi code that translates that to text ("House (HF antenna)") seems <br>to be a bit buggy, it probably should say something like "invalid symbol <br>table or overlay code".<br><br>The APRS packet code at this end also needs a bit of improvement in the <br>handling of mangled mic-e packets, I think it should be able to get the <br>symbol table right, since it is present in the remaining packet data. I'll <br>look into it a bit later.<br><br>The K0GDI-6 igate should also be fixed to not eat bytes out from mic-e <br>packets.<br><br> - Hessu, of aprs.fi, now in London<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>aprssig mailing list<br>aprssig@tapr.org<br>http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig<br></body>