[Xastir] Adding station identifiers

Jason KG4WSV kg4wsv at gmail.com
Thu Dec 16 19:58:30 EST 2010


On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Guy Story KC5GOI <kc5goi at gmail.com> wrote:
>0 and 16 are not available as SSIDs per the ax25 spec.

Sorry, but 0 _is_ a valid SSID. The generally convention is for
applications to display the callsign only without an SSID when the
SSID is 0.

> I forget off the top of my head why 16 is not usable.

Because computers start counting at 0, so 16 is the 17th value. There
are only 16 values (0-15).

-Jason
kg4wsv



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