[Xastir] Am I actually getting RF to APRS

[n.heyen at comcast.net]

Thanks Tom, 



Your explaination helps, at least to reinforce what I thought was happening. So far, so good. Overall, nothing too difficult or perplexing. But sort of hard to know if anything is working if nothing looks like it changed. :-) 



Now to figure out just what to do with it... There isn't a lot of interest or activity locally at the moment but maybe with a little infrastructure getting setup I can attrack some. 



Norman 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Hayward" <esarfl at gmail.com> 
To: "Xastir - APRS client software discussion" <xastir at lists.xastir.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 10:32:34 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central 
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Am I actually getting RF to APRS 

> When I go to FindU and look at the raw packets for my station (KC9NVN) I can see traffic. But I don't know if it internet traffic or RF. I've tried to send messages to a couple of people but so far I've not gotten an answer. 

Take a look at http://aprs.fi/?c=raw&call=KC9NVN 

You'll see some packets with "TCPIP*,qAC". This means those packets 
were originated on the internet. 

Other packets list a digipeater and "qAR". qAR means the packet was 
received over the radio. 

So, it looks like you have the system correctly working over the radio 
and the internet. 

It's common to not get a response to messages. Many APRS trackers are 
not message-capable, and the messaging system is somewhat unreliable 
anyway. 


Tom KD7LXL 
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