[Xastir] Position data from Xastir not accepted by Yaesu FTM-400 or Direwolf

[Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate]

I'm also wondering why it seems to be going through cwop1.aprs.org... We
shouldn't be getting it; we filter for weather packets. That's certainly
NOT a weather packet.

gerry

On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 2:35 PM Curt, WE7U <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Oct 2018, Tom Henderson wrote:
>
> > I had noticed that the position information for my Xastir digi wasn't
> showing
> > up in my mobile (FTM-400). Today I was playing around with DireWolf and
> > noticed the "Unknown message type K" error. Is this something I have set
> > wrong in my Xastir config?
> >
> > Strangely enough, when i create map objects and transmit their location,
> the
> > location info works just fine.
> >
> > Here's the error message I saw in DireWolf
> >
> > KW4TOM audio level = 45(22/9)   [NONE]   ____|||||
> > [0.6]
> > KW4TOM>APX211,WIDE2-2:KW4TOM>APX211,TCPIP*:=3023.43NT08705.80W&PHG810073
> to
> > all! Gulf Breeze Digi/iGate<0x0d>
> > Unknown message type K, Xastir
>
> The unusual things I see are the 'T' where the '/' or '\' should be
> between latitude and longitude (didn't consult the spec to see whether that
> was valid or what it means), and the "PHG" is too long... I think you need
> a space between the PHG numbers and the comment. I don't know why it says
> "Unknown message type K", as the only K's I see are in the callsigns.
>
> Ah, consulted the spec: 'T' is an alpha overlay, so that part should be
> good.
>
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