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Your set-up description is not very clear. I'm guessing at what you are doing, so here's my best shot with incomplete information, in regards to your questions, in order:
1. When you say "most other stations", are you referring to stations coming from the Internet APRS-IS backbone? Note that such stations' packets will have a 3rd-party header indicating the packet routing before entering the APRS-IS backbone. Only packet that are purely RF (never passed through the Internet to get to you) will not have a 3rd-party header in the message body. 2. What I-gate station? Are you referring to your YAAC installation as the I-gate station? 3. If YAAC is supposed to be running as an I-gate, then there are several pre-requisites you have to meet to do that: a. you have to have a passcode to authorize write access to the APRS-IS backbone (or be using your ARRL Logbook of the World certificate for an SSL connection). b. your APRS-IS port has to be enabled for transmit (to the APRS-IS). c. you cannot have disabled RF->IS forwarding. d. you need to enable your own beacon to the APRS-IS, so they can identify your station's location. e. you have to have an RF port of some kind that is hearing and successfully decoding packets. Is your test "radio" actually transmitting to RF, and are you hearing such transmissions with a different radio connected to YAAC? Andrew, KA2DDO ________________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Matt Reynolds <nedheadd@...> Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2021 6:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [yaac-users] Heard Stations/raw packets/aprs.fi update Testing my yaac I-gate: 1. When transmitting a position from my test radio, the raw packets display showed my call sign as the source (KD0PYK): destination: APDP16<-wide1-1, wide2-1 message body: =3957.89N/10530.72W$144.390MHZ/A=00824 Is this what I should expect ? Most other raw packets have a call sign before the '=<position>' 2. Watching 'Heard Stations' display, further tests show my call sign appropriately updated when I send a position report from my test radio. Is this really indicative of stations heard directly by the I-gate radio? 3. Despite seeing these appropriate displays (yes, I did close the raw packet display after noting the entries) , I didn't see any update to APRS.fi - searching for packets sent by my test radio today (KD0PYK-7). Why not ? 73 Matt KD0PYK |
