[OZAPRS] APRS- UI digi question NEUTBAY

[Glen English VK1XX]

wo! there is is. path with the good weather the RHR has returned.

VK2NR-5>APRS,VK2RHR-1,VK1RBM-1*:
<UI>:                                         
}NEUTBA>APRS,TCPIP,VK2NR-5*::BLN2SYDTD:Tide 1.96M, Vis 40Km, Cloud 01
Okt, Air Qual 27, UV idx 7.1



On 6/11/2017 7:02 PM, Josh wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> It is VK2NR-5 that I can hear gating it to RF as a bulletin, its not
> coming my way via VK2BV-4.
>
> Here's what my igate hears - VK2NR-5 is gating it with a path of WIDE1-1
> and an (I think) invalid bulletin tag - it should be "::BLN2     :"
> according to the spec?
>
> [0.3] VK2NR-5>APRS,WIDE1-1:}NEUTBA>APRS,TCPIP,VK2NR-5*::BLN2SYDTD:Tide
> 0.32M, Vis 25Km, Cloud 05 Okt, Air Qual 40, UV idx 1.1
>
> Then VK2RHR digipeats it, but something in the frame is confusing RHR
> because it adds its own callsign to the path but *fails to decrement*
> the hop count - which is why this is traveling far further than any
> other packet digipeated by RHR:
>
> [0.3]
> VK2NR-5>APRS,VK2RHR-1*,WIDE1-1:}NEUTBA>APRS,TCPIP,VK2NR-5*::BLN2SYDTD:Tide
> 0.32M, Vis 25Km, Cloud 05 Okt, Air Qual 40, UV idx 1.1
>
> Lucky it doesn't affect other digipeaters in the same way as it does
> RHR, or it would be digipeated all up and down the east coast!
>
> - Josh VK2HFF
>
>
>
>
> On 5/11/2017 9:39 PM, David Hardy wrote:
>> I have reduced the chars to 6 -NEUTBA
>>
>>
>> See how that goes.  
>>
>> Subsequent testing to the original question showed vk2bv-4 was puting
>> only 6 chars to RF and with no path, so digis should have repeated it. 
>> So my assumption there is as busted igate leaking it out to RF withing
>> range of high range , possibly due to 7 chars 
>>
>> Dave vk2jdh
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