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Hello, This is my first post. I am using The PI-TNC with a yaesu FT-1500.
I have it set-up with the serial port 0.? I want to use it as a rf in to aprs.fi Igate. DO not want to digipeat.

I am able to receive packets from my Anytone APRS HT and Mobile. I can see them on the pi-tnc YAACi aprs map along with other stations in the area.
I have not had any success getting the aprs packets from my pi-tnc to show on aprs.fi. My pi-tnc shows up fine just not getting the rf packets coming in to forward.

I have generated an aprs passcode using the aprs generator.??

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Dave/AD4UU

OK, there are several settings you have to make before APRS-IS forwarding will occur.

1. Have you created a port of type APRS-IS, and entered your station callsign-SSID and your passcode?
2. Have you set the above port to Transmit Enabled (i.e., the port is allowed to send traffic to the APRS-IS backbone)?
3. (this shouldn't be an issue, but check it anyway) On the File->Configure->Expert Mode dialog's Transmit tab, is the Allow RF->IS checkbox checked?
4. Do you have a working Internet connection, such that the IP button on your map toolbar is showing black with occasional green or red flickers? If you don't have the button, you don't have an APRS-IS port to forward the packets. If the button is orange or gray, then there is something wrong with your connection (such as port blocking by your Internet Service Provider or firewall [including Windows Firewall on a Microsoft Windows PC]).
5. Is your beacon configured and enabled? If you don't send your own position to the APRS-IS, it may not accept your packets.
6. Is your enabled beacon selected on the APRS-IS port? Different ports are allowed to send different beacon messages (for example, if you had set up a cross-band digipeater), so ensure that at least one of your beacon definitions is enabled, correct, and selected on the APRS-IS port.

If all of the above are OK, then you should be forwarding.

Now, if the packets are showing up on aprs.fi, but not with your callsign-SSID in the 3rd-party header, then that is typical. YAAC is not the fastest I-gate application out there (it is optimized for responsively displaying data to you over being an efficient I-gate or digipeater), so if some other nearby I-gate gets the RF packets to the APRS-IS backbone before you do, your duplicate packets will be dropped. Check the location of the I-gate whose callsign-SSID is showing up in the packets. The only way you can ensure your station is working as an I-gate is to have it receive RF packets that no other I-gate could receive (such as from a low-power HT next to your I-gate) and verify those packets get through.

It's been said many times before, but I'm going to say it again. The APRS-IS backbone _CANNOT_ be used for propagation analysis, due to its duplicate packet dropping. You will never see all of the receiving I-gates for any given RF packet, just the first one.

Hope this helps.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC

Hello Andrew,

Thanks for your response.? I have double checked everything from your list.? All looks like it should. I have an IP icon that flashes green. I also have an rf icon flashes green when
I key up one of my aprs radio send APRS packets.? ?I also get the WX radar which is nice. I am seeing my Home icon(did't see any i-gate icons on the drop down list) on the YAAC aprs map
and I also see my radios when I key them up. Just not making to aprs.fi.? Hi fixed station does show up on the aprs.fi map. No rf.

On the wizard firt screen I entry my call sign AD4UU no ssid.? On the drop down below it where u select the ssid and tyupe of connection.? It defaults to 0.? I select 10 for igate and it does not
save it.? When i go back to look at it, its at 0 again.

Transmit is enable and beacon set with home icon.? No igate in drop down.

Thanks

Dave

Update,

I noticed on the YAAC APRS MAP when I keyed up my radio I was getting a question mark.? ?Meaning unknown position from the icon drop down list.
Thinking YAAC did't recognize the symbol I was using I change it to one that was it the drop down list. A bicycle "/b".? ?Both of my radio are? now showing up on the aprs.fi map.

I don't see a symbol just for an i-gate on the drop down list.? I guess a green star for a digipeater for a star is the next closet thing?

So I think I am good. Thanks Andrew for your help.

This is pretty cool.

Dave/AD4UU

The I-gate symbols are documented on the YAAC help page on configuring an I-gate. However, as a short reminder, there are several symbol choices, depending on how your I-gate is set up.

I& is the typical I-gate symbol (& is the symbol code for gateways of all types, and the overlay indicates the type).
T& indicates a transmit-capable I-gate (since so many are receive-only).
2& indicates a transmit-capable I-gate that uses a digipeat path allowing a second RF hop (one digipeat).
R& indicates a receive-only I-gate (unable or unwilling to forward Internet packets to local RF stations).
I# is a variant of the digipeater symbol indicating a station functioning as both a digipeater and an I-gate.

Don't use D&, as that indicates a D-star gateway.

Hope this helps.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC