Makes sense to me. I thing weather packets are long enough as they are without adding a bunch of stuff on to the end of them.
Don't worry about me posting anything to the APRSSIG... I left that group many moons ago and don't think I'll be going back. Very unfortunate, though. It could have been a very good place to get information. Eric Tom Russo wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:05:58PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: >> Okay. So there shouldn't be a PHG statement at the end of the weather >> data? That is interesting. I know that UIView doesn't integrate the >> PHG in like Xastir does so John (KE4TZN) was simply putting the PHG >> statement in the comment portion of the station ID so it would be in there. > > Ah. Well it's certainly wrong just to bung it into the comment field. The > PHG data belongs in a specific place in the information field; specifically > PHG belongs in the "Data Extension" field, right after the symbol code in > byte > 28 of the packet, according to the spec. No spec-compliant software should > be > decoding it from the comment field. > >> I wonder if there is a way to modify the spec to include these >> situations? > > Sigh. The spec is pretty well ossified, although there are a large number > of "errata" out there on Bob B's web site. You could always ask on APRSSIG, I > guess, but let us know when you before you do so --- I, for one, need to > order a new asbestos suit before reading any subsequent traffic over there. > >> If a digipeater were setup to also be a weather station >> you'd definitely want to know the approximate coverage area. > > Yep. Such a digi should be transmitting extra packets with a station > comment (containing a canonical set of information to show its capabilities) > and PHG info. It is not enough for it to just burp weather info. This is > usually done by programming a set of beacon strings into its TNC to be > sent out at infrequent intervals. > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
