In article <E126sSA-0003Tk-00@...>, David J. Ackrill
<dave.g0dja@...> writes
I don't remember seeing any great problem with -3 or even -4!
Some people say you shouldn't put any SSID in at all.
The APRS spec says it should only be used for trackers which have no
other means of specifying a symbol. If a symbol code is specified
elsewhere in a packet as well as in the source SSID, then the SSID-
specified symbol is ignored.
For example:
MYCALL G3NRW-9 by itself (with no other symbol specified in packets)
means I am a car.
MYCALL G3NRW-9
UNPROTO GPSLV via RELAY means I am a jeep (i.e. GPSLV overrides -9)
MYCALL G3NRW-9
BT =5152.53N\00029.30WU means I am a little ray of sunshine
(i.e. \U overrides -9)
Tell you what, why don't we have a committee to discuss it ;-)
What a splendid idea ..... :^)
Just don't ask me to sit on it - HI!
And don't ask me what happens if you specify SSID *and* GPSxyz *and* a
symbol code in the Information field .......!
TBD.
73
Ian, G3NRW
Technical Editor, APRS Protocol Specification
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