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Is this emergency??? 505 in Lat and Lon??


 


Lynn Deffenbaugh
 

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Why would 505 represent an emergency?

Looks more like a corrupted object packet that is trying to say ??5 degrees 05.39 minutes west for a repeater whose tone is 114.8 and operates under the callsign N7ELY, but I'd need more detail from the packet than that APRSdroid screen capture is showing.

Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32


On 5/23/2024 2:34 PM, K7OI-Mark wrote:


 

That would be a corrupted packet coming from this source:


2024-05-23 10:05:54 MDT:?>APNX02,qAR,:??[Unsupported packet format]
2024-05-23 10:12:54 MDT:?>APNX02,qAR,:;147.180mhz*111111z3918.75N/11505.39WrT114.8?N7ELY?Kimberly??[Invalid object]

James
VE6SRV


On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 1:05?PM Lynn Deffenbaugh via <kj4erj=[email protected]> wrote:

Why would 505 represent an emergency?

Looks more like a corrupted object packet that is trying to say ??5 degrees 05.39 minutes west for a repeater whose tone is 114.8 and operates under the callsign N7ELY, but I'd need more detail from the packet than that APRSdroid screen capture is showing.

Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32


On 5/23/2024 2:34 PM, K7OI-Mark wrote:


 

From:



BTEXT ;FFF.FFxyz*111111zDDMM.hhN/DDDMM.hhWrTnnn RXXm NETxxxxxx MTGxxxxx .........

BTEXT ;FFF.FFxyz*111111zDDMM.hhN/DDDMM.hhWrTnnn oXXX NETxxxxxx MTGxxxxx Rxxm .....



Where ;FFF.FFxyz is the frequency, and "xyz" are optional local unique characters
? ? or ? ? ;FFF.FF5yz for 5 KHz repeaters and "yz" is one of over 3600 unique characters A-z, 0-9
? ? or ? ? Example "xyz"s might be -IA for Iowa, -A for Atlanta, *SD for SanDiego, etc
Where *111111z is the pseudo default null Date-Time field for the OBJECT format
Where DDMM.hhN/DDDMM.hhWr is the LAT/LONG and "r" symbol for a voice repeater
Where Tnnn is the tone in Hz (without tenths)
Where oXXX is +xxx or -xxx offset in 10's of KHz
Where RXXm is the range in Miles (if standard offset is used)
Where Netxxxxxx is the local weekly net time (if any)
Where Mtgyyyyy is the monthly club meeting time (if any)
Where ... are 9 more bytes of optional text that will not be displayed on most mobiles but are visible on other clients


You can see that the OBJECT name is too long causing problems with decoding the packet.

James
VE6SRV


On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 4:16?PM James Ewen via <ve6srv=[email protected]> wrote:
That would be a corrupted packet coming from this source:


2024-05-23 10:05:54 MDT:?>APNX02,qAR,:??[Unsupported packet format]
2024-05-23 10:12:54 MDT:?>APNX02,qAR,:;147.180mhz*111111z3918.75N/11505.39WrT114.8?N7ELY?Kimberly??[Invalid object]

James
VE6SRV


On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 1:05?PM Lynn Deffenbaugh via <kj4erj=[email protected]> wrote:

Why would 505 represent an emergency?

Looks more like a corrupted object packet that is trying to say ??5 degrees 05.39 minutes west for a repeater whose tone is 114.8 and operates under the callsign N7ELY, but I'd need more detail from the packet than that APRSdroid screen capture is showing.

Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32


On 5/23/2024 2:34 PM, K7OI-Mark wrote:


 

I like to think of myself as an armchair psychologist dealing deeply in the realm of associations...

If someone was pinned down and or mentally at least partially incapacitated. It could be assumed that manipulating a keyboard on any device would be difficult.?

Upon pontificating of the pre- ponderance of evidence 505 is very similar in nature to SOS used by Morse code operations to signal a voice Mayday etc.

I think it should be clear when sent what are the intentions of the operator such as in my call sign being very fond of CW
K7OI.? ?_._? _ _ ... _ _ _? .. if I spelled that correctly.?
I am not fond of the Nanny who is so easily distracted.
73
Mark K7OI?

On Thu, May 23, 2024, 12:05 PM Lynn Deffenbaugh via <kj4erj=[email protected]> wrote:

Why would 505 represent an emergency?

Looks more like a corrupted object packet that is trying to say ??5 degrees 05.39 minutes west for a repeater whose tone is 114.8 and operates under the callsign N7ELY, but I'd need more detail from the packet than that APRSdroid screen capture is showing.

Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32


On 5/23/2024 2:34 PM, K7OI-Mark wrote:


 

I appreciate everyone's input, and as soon as the snow drifts have melted at the site, and I can drive up to the mountain I'll make the changes to eliminate the decode errors.

Les Robison? N7GWT / N7ELY trustee
Eastern Nevada Amateur Radio Society


 

Les,?

You can make those changes remotely over the air if you have your TNC set up properly.?

I can walk?you through it if you like.?

Contact me directly if you have any questions.?

James
VE6SRV


On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 16:32 Archie Robison via <sgtrobison=[email protected]> wrote:
I appreciate everyone's input, and as soon as the snow drifts have melted at the site, and I can drive up to the mountain I'll make the changes to eliminate the decode errors.

Les Robison? N7GWT / N7ELY trustee
Eastern Nevada Amateur Radio Society