[OZAPRS] Foundation Calls reminder

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 03:11:57PM +1000, Ray Wells wrote:
> Is vk2fire actually making it to RF? What does the 6 character  
> limitation in ax25 do with a 7 character callsign, truncate it so that  
> vk2fir appears to be on air? Is this then a case of vk2fire not  
> identifying correctly, or is he now pirating somebody elses callsign?

The igate sends all packets with its own call in the AX.25 header, using
the APRS third party format.. the VK2FIRE call (or any other call heard
on the internet) only appears in the AX.25 payload, not the header.. so
there is no problem with callsigns being truncated.


Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish at debian.org> <hamish at cloud.net.au>
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