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

[Tom Henderson]

I do have a feed from CWOP that I use with a filter for distance. If I 
don't send a position beacon, I don't get anything back because distance 
can't be calculated.

Tom Henderson

On 10/22/18 3:16 PM, Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Curt, WE7U.        http://we7u.wetnet.net
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