[OZAPRS] "To" field

[Jason Govan]

Good to see an iGate back up in Mildura active. It has been the hole in my tracking when I go up to see the family.

I was almost tempted to set one up and leave it going up there.

Cheers,
Jason – VK3PMR

From: OZAPRS <ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au> On Behalf Of Norm McMillan
Sent: 12 October 2018 13:13
To: Australian APRS Users <ozaprs at aprs.net.au>
Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] "To" field

Thank you for the info Jim,
It all makes sense now!

norm vk3xci

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 11:14 PM Jim Tittsler <ZL2IA at onnz.net<mailto:ZL2IA at onnz.net>> wrote:
On 2018-10-11 05:49 PM, Norm McMillan wrote:
> Watching a number (quite a number!) of packets as I set up and fine tune
> things, something caught my eye. The first fiel in the string following
> the "from" callsign seems to change. I always thought this was generated
> by the TNC/Tracker .
> 2018-10-10 13:45:40 AEDT: VK3XCI-7>DEB1W0,WIDE1-1,WIDE2-2,qAR,VK3WRM-5:'F`cl#XK\]"4Y}Let the Good times Roll

The "destination callsign" field of a Mic-E formatted packet provides 7
bytes worth of the position information (mostly the latitude, with the
first part of the information/text field containing the rest of the
position) allowing a more compact, but less human-readable, reporting
format.
  ftp://www.tapr.org/projects/mic-edev/software/mic-e-proto.html

There are several software "decoders" that will translate a MIC-E packet
into a human-readable form if you want to examine the raw data stream.

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