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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/3/2020 8:58 PM, Nick VA3NNW wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Brek Martin wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">[...] and I’m also interested in any other quirks people might have
found,
especially those that can be corrected by software at the receiving end.
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Got to be careful about "Correcting" packets. It can completely ruin
APRS/APRS-IS's ability to de-duplicate, especially if multiple people
"correct" packets in inconsistent ways. Better to drop them on the floor.
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<p>You can do whatever "corrections" you want for local
interpretation and display, but the originally received packet is
what must be gated to the APRS-IS per the spec at <a
href="http://www.aprs-is.net/IGating.aspx">http://www.aprs-is.net/IGating.aspx</a>
(emphasis on the "never" is their's)<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;
font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing:
normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">No
modification of the TNC2 format line should be made except to
add ,qAR,IGATECALL to the end of the path (and the third-party
exception noted above). IGATECALL is the callsign-SSID of the
IGate and denotes the point of entry for the packet. The data
portion of the packet should<span> </span></span><b
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New
Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial;">never</b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;
font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing:
normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span> </span>be
modified (with the third-party exception noted above).</span></blockquote>
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Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and
Win32
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