<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I'd guess it's because it's a malformed packet?<div><br></div><div>The : signifies it as being a message, but that requires that the following 9 characters be the recipient station, followed by another colon, the message, then { and the message number</div><div><br></div><div>I'm guessing you meant that to just be a status report, in which case you want to use > rather than : :)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Damien</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Damien Gardner Jnr<br>VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust<br><a href="mailto:rendrag@rendrag.net">rendrag@rendrag.net</a> - <a href="http://www.rendrag.net/">http://www.rendrag.net/</a><br>--<br>We rode on the winds of the rising storm,<br> We ran to the sounds of thunder.<br>We danced among the lightning bolts,<br> and tore the world asunder</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></span></div><div><div><div>On 07/01/2010, at 11:12 PM, David and Justine Olsen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#ff0000" style="font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #ff0000">2010-01-07 11:47:13 UTC: <a href="http://aprs.fi/?c=raw&limit=&call=VK4MDX-4"><font color="#0000ff" style="color: #0000ff"><b>VK4MDX-4</b></font></a>>APMIXW,APRS,GATE,WIDE2-1,qAR,<a href="http://aprs.fi/?c=raw&limit=&call=ZL2TZE-4"><font color="#0000ff" style="color: #0000ff">ZL2TZE-4</font></a>:40M IGATE <b>[Unsupported packet format]</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000" face="Verdana"><b><br></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000" face="Verdana"><b>Does anyone have any clues what this could mean?</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000" face="Verdana"><b><br></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000" face="Verdana"><b>David VK4MDX</b></font></div> </div>_______________________________________________<br>OZAPRS mailing list<br><a href="mailto:OZAPRS@aprs.net.au">OZAPRS@aprs.net.au</a><br>http://lists.aprs.net.au/mailman/listinfo/ozaprs<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>