[OZAPRS] Re: UI-View32 position reports "unsupported packet format"

[Richard Murnane]

Hi Tony,

Thanks for your feedback, though I think Warren identified the extra  
character (05 hex, though aprsi.fi showed it as a space) preceding the  
"=" in the position beacon as the culprit.

I'm still mystified as to how it got there - I think may old laptop is  
playing up, as my new laptop worked, but I need to check that the  
settings are identical on both.

 From the new laptop (uncompressed to APRS..., uncompressed to  
GPSMV..., and compressed to GPSMV... respectively):

>  2009-04-11 14:19:13 EST:  
> VK2SKY>APU25N,VK2RAG-1*,WIDE2-1,qAR,VK2ZEN-5:=3341.06S/15106.00E- 
> Email: vk2sky at wia.org.au
>  2009-04-11 14:23:14 EST:  
> VK2SKY>GPSMV,VK2RAG-1*,WIDE2-1,qAR,VK2ZEN-5:=3341.06S/15106.00E- 
> Email: vk2sky at wia.org.au
>  2009-04-11 14:24:29 EST:  
> VK2SKY>GPSMV,VK2RAG-1,VK2RTZ-1,WIDE2*,qAR,VK2ZEN-5:=/_PLZt_<<-  
> BEmail: vk2sky at wia.org.au

Switching back to the old laptop:

>  2009-04-11 15:08:48 EST:  
> VK2SKY>APU25N,VK2RAG-1*,WIDE2-1,qAR,VK2ZEN-5: =3341.07S/15106.01E- 
> Email: vk2sky at wia.org.au [Unsupported packet format]

A bit weird, whatever root cause.

73 Richard VK2SKY


On 11/04/2009, at 6:27 PM, Tony Hunt wrote:

> I have to agree with Philip on this one Richard. In the APRS spec its
> probably refered to as the destination address field. UiView may  
> display it
> because its not entirely bound by the spec and very forgiving  
> especially if
> you have the "relaxed" frame check and locator check set in the Misc  
> menu.
>
> Tony Hunt  VK5AH


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