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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>And should have checked my spelling before hitting Send. I meant @ or /, not @ or . as timestamped position reports.<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">To: aprssig@tapr.org<br>Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 07:49:30 -0400<br>Subject: Re: [aprssig] Satgate<br>From: aprssig@tapr.org<br><br>
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<div dir="ltr">No, that's a valid format, according to the APRS protocol specification (chapter 8). Position reports starting with @ or . are specified to have a timestamp prefix prior to the latitude; position reports starting with ! or = do not have the timestamp. Now, whether a given gating package properly supports all four formats is another question (for example, DuchiSat1 is restricted to only use ! format with compressed encoding).<br><br>I've checked this recently, because I just recently updated my software (YAAC) to support all four formats instead of only the = format it formerly beaconed.<br><br>Andrew Pavlin, KA2DDO<br>author of YAAC<br><br></div></div> </div></body>
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