[Xastir] What am I doing????

[James Ewen]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Chip G. <n1mie at mac.com> wrote:
> One asked how much power I was running because he could hear
> me in the maritimes of Canada. The second asked if I was running
> 1500 watts or more.

Any evidence as to how they are hearing you?

> The second sent me this path as evidence:
> <http://www.mountainlake.k12.mn.us/ham/aprs/path.cgi?map=na>.
> As of right now it shows that I am propagating all over the east coast
> of the US and Canada.

Well, actually that page is showing that you are hearing stations from
all over the east coast, it does not show that you are being heard by
them. Now, if you look at the raw packets that the site is using to
determine what you are hearing, it tells a tale:

W4ALG-1>S5Q8,WIDE-1,A,4A,qAR,N1MIE-5:g^JR]3}
W4ALG-1>S5Q9,IE-,IE-,A,4A,qAR,N1MIE-5:g
AR]3}
KX4NC-3>APO,X,IE-,A,4A,qAR,N1MIE-5:35.88
WT4M-5>APU25N,D4UFD-5,qAR,N1MIE-5:<GT,LSD

All of the packets are damaged, none of the long distance packets are intact.

Here's a packet sent to the APRS-IS as seen on aprs.fi

2010-02-21 14:46:36 MST: VA2CMQ-3>APN8V2M,qAR,N1MIE-5:44.8N62.6#H50
iietrd tLc [Destination callsign is not a valid AX.25 call]

Something is getting munged up in the program, causing stations that
you are seeing on your internet feed to be mangled, and fed back out
the feed.

James
VE6SRV