[UAT] Mic-E bug (with fix)

[Martin Hebnes Pedersen]

On 17. jan. 2013 14:10, Martin Hebnes Pedersen wrote:
> Hi!
>
> First of all I would like to say I really like your project Dan. I've 
> been looking for this kind of APRS software for a while now, so thank 
> you for taking the time to write it and for making the source 
> available to us.
>
> I've managed to get it running on a Pi in my car using GPSd and an 
> OpenTracker+.
>
> I quickly realized that there had to be a bug in the generation of 
> Mic-E beacons, and after some debugging I found that the L-bit, lonsc 
> in make_mice_beacon(), should be 1 if lon is between 0-9 or larger 
> than 99. Current implementation only sets the L-bit to 1 if lon > 100. 
> See page 47 (Longitude Degrees Encoding) in the APRS Protocol 
> Reference ( ftp://ftp.tapr.org/aprssig/aprsspec/spec/aprs101/APRS101.pdf).
>
> Patch as attachment.
>
> I have also wondering if you have any plans on supporting metric units 
> to be displayed? Maybe an option in aprs.ini? I would be happy to help 
> you implement this feature if you like.
>
> Regards,
> Martin Hebnes Pedersen
> LA5NTA

I realized that the previous patch had a ugly bug. So here's a new and 
(hopefully) more accurate patch.

Regads,
Martin Hebnes Pedersen
LA5NTA
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