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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">We need some people to help test their radios against the APRS spec. We need to know how consistently all the manufactured radios receive the COMPRESSED and the ITEM formats. As a test case, use a TNC and send these raw text packets to your radio and see if it decodes them:</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">!/AAAABBBB>AAA test <span style="font-family:Wingdings">è</span> COMPRESSED car at 2559.54N/04759.05W going 128 degrees at 013 MPH</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">)Car!3000.00N/12000.00W>111/060 <span style="font-family:Wingdings">è</span> an ITEM named “car” at the LAT/LONG entered</p><p class="MsoNormal">)Bus!/AAAABBBB>AAA test <span style="font-family:Wingdings">è</span> a COMPRESSED ITEM “Bus” at the compressed example location</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">We have found that the old D7’s and D700’s do not decode either of the ITEMS. And since we have not really been transmitting these formats for about a decade, and since lots of YAESU radios have come out since then, we have no info on whether the YAESU’s can decode these rarely used ITEM formats.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Bob, WB4APR</p><p class="MsoNormal">-----------------------</p><p class="MsoNormal">(I may have used ABC instead of AAA to get the above CSE and speed, so try the one that works).</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>