We are attempting to deploy a large number of weather stations using the T2-135 in an Alinco DR-135T. Since we are forced to use tactical call signs, we have run into an issue. If the tracker 2 is configured with a tactical call in MYCALL and the responsible station call sign is placed in the COMMENT, we get 2 packets to fire at the INTERVAL time. One contains the position packet and the COMMENT entry tagged on the end and the other packet contains the position packet with the weather data tagged on the end. This creates more unneccesary overhead than we care to load on the local packet network.
MYCALL must remain tactical since there are not enough SSID's to support a single callsign. The tactical call sign is more descriptive of the location which is an additional plus. It would be nice to send an ID packet every 10 minutes with no routing path specified and let the weather packets fire at the specified interval and path. I am sure I can handle the ID through scripting, but eliminating the position packet that does not contain the weather payload seems like a code modification. If I could grab the formatted weather data via scripting it may be possible to issue a BEACON command with position and weather payload. Then I could take INTERVAL out of the picture. Anybody have any suggestions? Thanks and 73's, Tim - N8DEU Decatur, Alabama
