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At the moment I'm not going to join in any bulletin discussion of UI-
View on the packet network, because I think it's only a matter of time
before the usual wreckers get at the topic. However, I have been keeping
an eye on the comments being made.

The idea that has been suggested of setting the unproto address to UI-
View is potentially a good one, because I realised some time ago that
there was a problem of telling who was running the program and who was
just putting out compatible beacons. The one slight problem is that an
unproto address of UIVIEW isn't APRS compatible.

That is, of course, only a problem for APRS users! UI-View will accept
beacons sent to any address, because it looks at the structure of the
frame, not the address. I've always thought that APRS has got it wrong,
at least as far as usage in the UK is concerned, by recognising only a
few unproto addresses. However, I thought it was worth mentioning it,
before some APRS users pointed it out.

Someone suggested using an unproto address of APRS - I would definitely
not recommend that, because UI-View is not compatible with most of what
APRS does, and should not be regarded as an APRS program.

One thing that has occurred to me is that using different unproto
addresses could be used as a filter between different groups of UI-View
users sharing the same frequency. Perhaps it's looking too far ahead,
but I will make it possible, in the next update, to exclude by unproto
address besides excluding by callsign.

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Roger Barker, G4IDE roger@...
Boston, UK

In article <000a01be7fb9$fb153160$949f01d4@tfi014359>, Ken Collins
<ken.collins@...> writes

From: "Ken Collins" <ken.collins@...>

[snip]

I use the Btext to tell the world that I am using UI-VIEW:-

!5400.55N/00132.37W-UI-VIEW - Ken in Harrogate

All another station has to do is double click on my icon and they can see
that I
am using UI-VIEW. This allows me to maintain a degree of compatibility in
the
Unproto path with APRS, hopefully with mutual benefits to both systems.

Yes, that's a good idea. I have been thinking about formalise something
like that. My idea is to add to the Station Setup an option for the
program to automatically add something like {UIV06} to the end of the
BTEXT. That will identify UI-View users, show the program version, be
easy to check for automatically, and shouldn't give APRS users a
problem. It would allow UI-View users to be automatically identified on
the maps - say with a different colour callsign label - and in the
Station List.

I wonder what people think about that?

--
Roger Barker, G4IDE roger@...
Boston, UK