[OZAPRS] APRS SSID

[Steven Heimann]

Evening All

There was some discussion about this on the aprssig list last year and
Bob updated the APRS specs at http://aprs.org/aprs11/SSIDs.txt  The
station descriptions associated with SSID's are now more general and are
a recommendation only, at best giving a hint as to how the user is
getting into APRS.  The page is not too long and is worth a read.

Regards
Steven  VK2BOS


On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 09:55 +1000, Howard Small wrote:
> Given that there are dozens of icons representing an APRS station from 
> which to choose and that there is an identifier for the transceiver/tnc 
> type, is there any real reason to stick to the original use of SSIDs 
> where each one represents a different type of station?
> 
> Seems to me to be redundant as the icon more accurately portrays a 
> station than one of 15 SSIDs. If so then it would be simpler to use the 
> SSID as one prefers, e.g. -1 for the first station, -2 for the second 
> and so on...
> 
> Howard
> VK4BS
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