[drats_users] Text Message Field vs. GPS Message Field

[Stephen M. Parker]

> I put some stuff in my ID-800H that looks like gibberish in the Text
> Msg
> fields to make it play nicely with other DPRS-equipped rigs (people
> with
> 2820's tell me they can see my location information) as well as the
> JavaARPSd server running on the Gateway, and I get crap for it all the
> time on the Reflectors... like the text field is MORE useful holding my
> home city or name or something to them, than in making my GPS
> coordinates show up on aprs.fi...

Actually, the "gibberish" you reference (to make your GPS mode data show on
APRS Internet servers) goes in the GPS Message slot, not in the Text Message
field. Your text message slot can still be used for name, location, shoe
size, etc., and the reflector users won't gripe about your text.

BTW, it's not necessary to use that "gibberish" in order to show up on other
D-STAR radios, but it is needed for the D-PRS to APRS translation on the
gateways.

Now, back to the topic of this list ... d-rats ...

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Stephen, WR9A
shortwave at verizon.net
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