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HOWDY GUYS;
On sending a msg to a fellow ham, does this program show a reply from the other station?

Also what does OPEN NET? mean on the message board.
TNX
POB/K8LEN

Regarding your two questions in order:

1. It will only show an acknowledgement on the Messages window if the fellow ham actually sends a reply (either manually or via Auto Acknowledgement feature of some APRS clients). You can confirm that the other ham's station received your packet by looking on the Raw Packets view for a text message packet from that ham's station callsign-SSID with only the text ackNNNNN where NNNNN is the sequence number assigned by YAAC to your outgoing message. Alternatively, you can look at the Outgoing Messages window and see if the message is idle or still active (retransmitting because it hasn't heard an ack). Note that this is not reliable if your only path to the other ham is through a receive-only I-gate; then, even if his station hears the message and sends the ack message, the Rx I-gate won't put it on the air for you to hear.

2. You'll have to ask the person who sent that "OPEN NET" message. Presumably, they are talking about a radio net operation without a Net Control Station. Now, if you are talking about OpenTRAC (and what you said was a typo), then some few stations support the OpenTRAC protocol, an alternative to the APRS protocol, and you received a packet of type OpenTRAC rather than an APRS packet.

Hope this helps.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC
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Subject: [yaac-users] send a msg/rcv

HOWDY GUYS;
On sending a msg to a fellow ham, does this program show a reply from the other station?

Also what does OPEN NET mean on the message board.
TNX
POB/K8LEN