This is probably because you were formerly configured to have _no_ icon for your YAAC beacon. YAAC always plots its own station with the symbol specified in the beacon configuration. Since the Microsat was specifying a symbol, but YAAC wasn't, you got the (nonexistent) symbol in your YAAC beacon configuration. I presume you had exactly the same callsign-SSID combination for the Microsat and YAAC's connection to the Microsat; if the callsign-SSID settings didn't match, you would have plotted both components (the Microsat fix and the YAAC fix with its symbol).
If some other component (such as a Microsat WX3in1) is generating the beacon, it's not a YAAC beacon.
Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC
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[email protected]Subject: Re: [yaac-users] YAAC Mobile, symbol not showing on map
I found a work-around. I went into Beacon and configured a truck icon for my YAAC setup and now the pick-up truck icon shows up at the center of the screen.
The Microsat WX3in1 uses SmartBeaconing and sends out a position packet with the proper icon. I'm not sure why YAAC does not place that icon on the map, since in the Raw Packets window the location beacon sent by the WX3in1 shows that it has been digipeated, appears in the correct format, and in black font like the others that also are mapped properly on my display. However, the work-around doesn't explain for me why my position packet is not handled as the others received.
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Cheers and 73 - Jon N7UV
