The issue is the symbol (or actually the lack of a symbol). The APRS packet format !3912.21N08421.72W/ should actually be !3912.21N/08421.72Ws where 's' is a character denoting the symbol used for your station. The symbol is a setable value in the 2820, consists of 2 characters, usually '/' (between the latitude and longitude) and another character denoting what symbol to use. If you manually set this up (I am not fully familiar with the 2820 programming) to something other than one of the 2820's predefined symbols, I am guessing that you tried to use a space or something else that is not allowed and the 2820 choked on it. Try using one of the predefined symbols in the 2820 and that should take care of it.
73, Pete AE5PL --- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, Steve Lewis <n8...@...> wrote: > > Although I won't do it on a permanent basis, I want to be able to > "broadcast" my location via DPRS. I set the radio for GPS-A, set the > "unproto" for API282,DSTAR* . > > My packets are sorta getting out there, but aprs.fi says this: > > 2010-05-23 04:02:09 UTC: > N8TFD>API282,DSTAR*,qAR,K8BIG-B:!3912.21N08421.73W/ [Unsupported packet > format] > > Any thoughts? > > -73- >
