APRS – Making it work

I’m going to hijack this thread a tiny bit here because all the APRS testers are likely following it.

If you are using HF to get your APRS out through a gateway (like HFLINK ALE, Winlink, etc…) please message me privately. Curious if you are using ALE or what not…

Not in this thread though please!

Thx

-liam

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It won’t be long. They will be asking … So what that his APRS location recent or two weeks ago? I don’t know. Someone at Outernet decided to save a few bytes of storage. But there’s 16 GB of space. Yah I know, all empty.

Also, besides the date-time stamp, I would like to retrieve all of the APRS data up to as many records are saved. Why not let the API search tell you how many records to retrieve.

You will hear this: Oh sorry. The current JSON data structure is not an array, but all of it. I don’t know … Bob the APRS founder and his “expert” friend designed it this way. This guy Konrad complained and then eventually left the group. If we only had listened to him…

We’re talking about maybe 30 lines of code at most to create the right JSON structure. A stitch in time saves nine.

Thanks for having understood the most important part – the time stamps @clavo

–Konrad, WA4OSH

If I’ve learned anything about hams over the years… I think you said you have been one for 40? Me, 30.

  1. Don’t bring your girlfriend to a hamfest and let her wear a tank top. After 5 minutes of direct breast stares she will be back to the car for a sweatshirt

  2. Deodorant is your friend! Unless you have dreads and still show up at the hamfest. Free pass for having the balls to show up.

and

  1. Hams complain. I could elaborate. But I should not need to.

A stitch in time…

:slight_smile:

-liam

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Yes since the mid 70’s.

My girlfriend does not bother to go to hamfests for pretty much that reason (and others). She barely tolerates a tiny corner of “junk” in the TV room.

Over the last 40 years, the ham radio crowd has drastically changed from CB’ers to a mix of hippies and preppers. Here in the left coast of Washington State, it’s more hippies than preppers. On the other side of the mountains, it’s more preppers.

Yes. Don’t you know it.

There’s a corollary – a lie in time saves nine. That’s a good one in political circles.

–Konrad, WA4OSH

@Syed

Someone’s reading the forum. When I mentioned that you send a message up to the ISS and then into the APRS database and then back up through SES-2/Outernet, several people had to test it. Check this out:

KC4JIR-10>APU25N,qAR,W4JML-5:KC4JIR-10>APU25N,qAR,AE4XO::APOUT :Hello DE KC4JIR via OUTNET{00
KC4JIR-10>APJYC1,qAR,W4JML-5:KC4JIR-10>APJYC1,OUTNET,qAR,AE4XO::KC4JIR-10:73 DE KC4JIR-10, Middle GA{m0004
KC4JIR-10>APJYC1,qAR,W4JML-5:KC4JIR-10>APJYC1,OUTNET,qAR,AE4XO::KC4JIR-10:73 DE KC4JIR-10, Middle GA{m0003
KF7VII>APDR13,qAR,W4JML-5:KF7VII>APDR13,TCPIP*,qAC,T2GB::OUTNET :Hello, from north Idaho. sent 1237pm Pacific, Sunday{1
KI6WJP-10>APZP22,qAR,W4JML-5:KI6WJP-10>APZP22,TCPIP*,qAC,T2EDM::KI6WJP-3 :Test to yaac 12:53 via OUTNET
KC4JIR-10>APJYC1,qAR,W4JML-5:KC4JIR-10>APJYC1,OUTNET,qAR,AE4XO::KC4JIR-10:73 DE KC4JIR-10, Middle GA{m0002
M0KNC-3>APSK20,qAR,W4JML-5:M0KNC-3>APSK20,WIDE1-1,qAR,OE3PDB-3::APOUT : test to outernet from 10Mhz three OUTNET{8
M0KNC-3>APSK63,qAR,W4JML-5:M0KNC-3>APSK63,OE3MZC-9,qAR,OE3PDB-3::APOUT : test to outernet from 10Mhz OUTNET{5
KI6WJP-10>APZP22,qAR,W4JML-5:KI6WJP-10>APZP22,TCPIP*,qAC,T2CAEAST::KI6WJP-3 :Test to yaac via OUTNET
WXBOT>APOUT,qAR,W4JML-5:WXBOT>APOUT,OUTNET,qAS,KI6WJP::KI6WJP-10:High 44F
WXBOT>APOUT,qAR,W4JML-5:WXBOT>APOUT,OUTNET,qAS,KI6WJP::KI6WJP-10:Mount Shasta CA. Wednesday,Slight Chance Rain then Rain Likely 60%
RS0ISS>CQ,qAR,W4JML-5:RS0ISS>CQ,qAR,W9PAT:>ARISS - International Space Station
W6MMS>APJYC1,qAR,W4JML-5:W6MMS>APJYC1,TCPIP*,qAC,T2IAD::APOUT :Hello OUTNET! 31 Jan at 0307 UTC{M0001
RS0ISS>CQ,qAR,W4JML-5:RS0ISS>CQ,qAR,WA8LMF-SG:>ARISS - International Space Station
RS0ISS>CQ,qAR,W4JML-5:RS0ISS>CQ,qAR,VK5ASF:>ARISS - International Space Station
KE7WWT-1>APMI01,TCPIP*,qAS,KE7WWT:OUTNET
KC4JIR-10>APU25N,qAR,W4JML-5:KC4JIR-10>APU25N,qAR,AE4XO::APOUT :Hello DE KC4JIR via OUTNET{00
KC4JIR-10>APJYC1,qAR,W4JML-5:KC4JIR-10>APJYC1,OUTNET,qAR,AE4XO::KC4JIR-10:73 DE KC4JIR-10, Middle GA{m0004
KC4JIR-10>APJYC1,qAR,W4JML-5:KC4JIR-10>APJYC1,OUTNET,qAR,AE4XO::KC4JIR-10:73 DE KC4JIR-10, Middle GA{m0003
KF7VII>APDR13,qAR,W4JML-5:KF7VII>APDR13,TCPIP*,qAC,T2GB::OUTNET :Hello, from north Idaho. sent 1237pm Pacific, Sunday{1
KI6WJP-10>APZP22,qAR,W4JML-5:KI6WJP-10>APZP22,TCPIP*,qAC,T2EDM::KI6WJP-3 :Test to yaac 12:53 via OUTNET
KC4JIR-10>APJYC1,qAR,W4JML-5:KC4JIR-10>APJYC1,OUTNET,qAR,AE4XO::KC4JIR-10:73 DE KC4JIR-10, Middle GA{m0002
M0KNC-3>APSK20,qAR,W4JML-5:M0KNC-3>APSK20,WIDE1-1,qAR,OE3PDB-3::APOUT : test to outernet from 10Mhz three OUTNET{8
M0KNC-3>APSK63,qAR,W4JML-5:M0KNC-3>APSK63,OE3MZC-9,qAR,OE3PDB-3::APOUT : test to outernet from 10Mhz OUTNET{5
KI6WJP-10>APZP22,qAR,W4JML-5:KI6WJP-10>APZP22,TCPIP*,qAC,T2CAEAST::KI6WJP-3 :Test to yaac via OUTNET
WXBOT>APOUT,qAR,W4JML-5:WXBOT>APOUT,OUTNET,qAS,KI6WJP::KI6WJP-10:High 44F
WXBOT>APOUT,qAR,W4JML-5:WXBOT>APOUT,OUTNET,qAS,KI6WJP::KI6WJP-10:Mount Shasta CA. Wednesday,Slight Chance Rain then Rain Likely 60%
RS0ISS>CQ,qAR,W4JML-5:RS0ISS>CQ,qAR,W9PAT:>ARISS - International Space Station
W6MMS>APJYC1,qAR,W4JML-5:W6MMS>APJYC1,TCPIP*,qAC,T2IAD::APOUT :Hello OUTNET! 31 Jan at 0307 UTC{M0001
RS0ISS>CQ,qAR,W4JML-5:RS0ISS>CQ,qAR,WA8LMF-SG:>ARISS - International Space Station
RS0ISS>CQ,qAR,W4JML-5:RS0ISS>CQ,qAR,VK5ASF:>ARISS - International Space Station
KC4JIR-10>APU25N,qAR,W4JML-5:KC4JIR-10>APU25N,qAR,AE4XO::APOUT :Hello DE KC4JIR via OUTNET{00
KC4JIR-10>APJYC1,qAR,W4JML-5:KC4JIR-10>APJYC1,OUTNET,qAR,AE4XO::KC4JIR-10:73 DE KC4JIR-10, Middle GA{m0004
KC4JIR-10>APJYC1,qAR,W4JML-5:KC4JIR-10>APJYC1,OUTNET,qAR,AE4XO::KC4JIR-10:73 DE KC4JIR-10, Middle GA{m0003
KF7VII>APDR13,qAR,W4JML-5:KF7VII>APDR13,TCPIP*,qAC,T2GB::OUTNET :Hello, from north Idaho. sent 1237pm Pacific, Sunday{1
KI6WJP-10>APZP22,qAR,W4JML-5:KI6WJP-10>APZP22,TCPIP*,qAC,T2EDM::KI6WJP-3 :Test to yaac 12:53 via OUTNET
KC4JIR-10>APJYC1,qAR,W4JML-5:KC4JIR-10>APJYC1,OUTNET,qAR,AE4XO::KC4JIR-10:73 DE KC4JIR-10, Middle GA{m0002
M0KNC-3>APSK20,qAR,W4JML-5:M0KNC-3>APSK20,WIDE1-1,qAR,OE3PDB-3::APOUT : test to outernet from 10Mhz three OUTNET{8
M0KNC-3>APSK63,qAR,W4JML-5:M0KNC-3>APSK63,OE3MZC-9,qAR,OE3PDB-3::APOUT : test to outernet from 10Mhz OUTNET{5
KI6WJP-10>APZP22,qAR,W4JML-5:KI6WJP-10>APZP22,TCPIP*,qAC,T2CAEAST::KI6WJP-3 :Test to yaac via OUTNET
WXBOT>APOUT,qAR,W4JML-5:WXBOT>APOUT,OUTNET,qAS,KI6WJP::KI6WJP-10:High 44F
WXBOT>APOUT,qAR,W4JML-5:WXBOT>APOUT,OUTNET,qAS,KI6WJP::KI6WJP-10:Mount Shasta CA. Wednesday,Slight Chance Rain then Rain Likely 60%
RS0ISS>CQ,qAR,W4JML-5:RS0ISS>CQ,qAR,W9PAT:>ARISS - International Space Station
W6MMS>APJYC1,qAR,W4JML-5:W6MMS>APJYC1,TCPIP*,qAC,T2IAD::APOUT :Hello OUTNET! 31 Jan at 0307 UTC{M0001
RS0ISS>CQ,qAR,W4JML-5:RS0ISS>CQ,qAR,WA8LMF-SG:>ARISS - International Space Station
RS0ISS>CQ,qAR,W4JML-5:RS0ISS>CQ,qAR,VK5ASF:>ARISS - International Space Station
KC4JIR-10>APU25N,qAR,W4JML-5:KC4JIR-10>APU25N,qAR,AE4XO::APOUT :Hello DE KC4JIR via OUTNET{00
KC4JIR-10>APJYC1,qAR,W4JML-5:KC4JIR-10>APJYC1,OUTNET,qAR,AE4XO::KC4JIR-10:73 DE KC4JIR-10, Middle GA{m0004
KC4JIR-10>APJYC1,qAR,W4JML-5:KC4JIR-10>APJYC1,OUTNET,qAR,AE4XO::KC4JIR-10:73 DE KC4JIR-10, Middle GA{m0003
KF7VII>APDR13,qAR,W4JML-5:KF7VII>APDR13,TCPIP*,qAC,T2GB::OUTNET :Hello, from north Idaho. sent 1237pm Pacific, Sunday{1
KI6WJP-10>APZP22,qAR,W4JML-5:KI6WJP-10>APZP22,TCPIP*,qAC,T2EDM::KI6WJP-3 :Test to yaac 12:53 via OUTNET
KC4JIR-10>APJYC1,qAR,W4JML-5:KC4JIR-10>APJYC1,OUTNET,qAR,AE4XO::KC4JIR-10:73 DE KC4JIR-10, Middle GA{m0002
M0KNC-3>APSK20,qAR,W4JML-5:M0KNC-3>APSK20,WIDE1-1,qAR,OE3PDB-3::APOUT : test to outernet from 10Mhz three OUTNET{8
M0KNC-3>APSK63,qAR,W4JML-5:M0KNC-3>APSK63,OE3MZC-9,qAR,OE3PDB-3::APOUT : test to outernet from 10Mhz OUTNET{5
KI6WJP-10>APZP22,qAR,W4JML-5:KI6WJP-10>APZP22,TCPIP*,qAC,T2CAEAST::KI6WJP-3 :Test to yaac via OUTNET
WXBOT>APOUT,qAR,W4JML-5:WXBOT>APOUT,OUTNET,qAS,KI6WJP::KI6WJP-10:High 44F
WXBOT>APOUT,qAR,W4JML-5:WXBOT>APOUT,OUTNET,qAS,KI6WJP::KI6WJP-10:Mount Shasta CA. Wednesday,Slight Chance Rain then Rain Likely 60%
RS0ISS>CQ,qAR,W4JML-5:RS0ISS>CQ,qAR,W9PAT:>ARISS - International Space Station
W6MMS>APJYC1,qAR,W4JML-5:W6MMS>APJYC1,TCPIP*,qAC,T2IAD::APOUT :Hello OUTNET! 31 Jan at 0307 UTC{M0001
RS0ISS>CQ,qAR,W4JML-5:RS0ISS>CQ,qAR,WA8LMF-SG:>ARISS - International Space Station
RS0ISS>CQ,qAR,W4JML-5:RS0ISS>CQ,qAR,VK5ASF:>ARISS - International Space Station
KE7WWT-1>APMI01,TCPIP*,qAS,KE7WWT:OUTNET
KE7WWT-1>APMI01,TCPIP*,qAS,KE7WWT:OUTNET
KC4JIR-10>APU25N,qAR,W4JML-5:KC4JIR-10>APU25N,qAR,AE4XO::APOUT :Hello DE KC4JIR via OUTNET{00
KC4JIR-10>APJYC1,qAR,W4JML-5:KC4JIR-10>APJYC1,OUTNET,qAR,AE4XO::KC4JIR-10:73 DE KC4JIR-10, Middle GA{m0004
KC4JIR-10>APJYC1,qAR,W4JML-5:KC4JIR-10>APJYC1,OUTNET,qAR,AE4XO::KC4JIR-10:73 DE KC4JIR-10, Middle GA{m0003
KF7VII>APDR13,qAR,W4JML-5:KF7VII>APDR13,TCPIP*,qAC,T2GB::OUTNET :Hello, from north Idaho. sent 1237pm Pacific, Sunday{1
KI6WJP-10>APZP22,qAR,W4JML-5:KI6WJP-10>APZP22,TCPIP*,qAC,T2EDM::KI6WJP-3 :Test to yaac 12:53 via OUTNET
KC4JIR-10>APJYC1,qAR,W4JML-5:KC4JIR-10>APJYC1,OUTNET,qAR,AE4XO::KC4JIR-10:73 DE KC4JIR-10, Middle GA{m0002
M0KNC-3>APSK20,qAR,W4JML-5:M0KNC-3>APSK20,WIDE1-1,qAR,OE3PDB-3::APOUT : test to outernet from 10Mhz three OUTNET{8
M0KNC-3>APSK63,qAR,W4JML-5:M0KNC-3>APSK63,OE3MZC-9,qAR,OE3PDB-3::APOUT : test to outernet from 10Mhz OUTNET{5
KI6WJP-10>APZP22,qAR,W4JML-5:KI6WJP-10>APZP22,TCPIP*,qAC,T2CAEAST::KI6WJP-3 :Test to yaac via OUTNET
WXBOT>APOUT,qAR,W4JML-5:WXBOT>APOUT,OUTNET,qAS,KI6WJP::KI6WJP-10:High 44F
WXBOT>APOUT,qAR,W4JML-5:WXBOT>APOUT,OUTNET,qAS,KI6WJP::KI6WJP-10:Mount Shasta CA. Wednesday,Slight Chance Rain then Rain Likely 60%
RS0ISS>CQ,qAR,W4JML-5:RS0ISS>CQ,qAR,W9PAT:>ARISS - International Space Station
W6MMS>APJYC1,qAR,W4JML-5:W6MMS>APJYC1,TCPIP*,qAC,T2IAD::APOUT :Hello OUTNET! 31 Jan at 0307 UTC{M0001
RS0ISS>CQ,qAR,W4JML-5:RS0ISS>CQ,qAR,WA8LMF-SG:>ARISS - International Space Station
RS0ISS>CQ,qAR,W4JML-5:RS0ISS>CQ,qAR,VK5ASF:>ARISS - International Space Station
KE7WWT-1>APMI01,TCPIP*,qAS,KE7WWT:OUTNET
KE7WWT-1>APMI01,TCPIP*,qAS,KE7WWT:OUTNET
KE7WWT-1>APMI01,TCPIP*,qAS,KE7WWT:OUTNET
KE7WWT-1>APMI01,TCPIP*,qAS,KE7WWT:OUTNET
KE7WWT-1>APMI01,TCPIP*,qAS,KE7WWT:OUTNET
KE7WWT-1>APMI01,TCPIP*,qAS,KE7WWT:OUTNET
KE7WWT-1>APMI01,TCPIP*,qAS,KE7WWT:OUTNET
KE7WWT-1>APMI01,TCPIP*,qAS,KE7WWT:OUTNET
KE7WWT-1>APMI01,TCPIP*,qAS,KE7WWT:OUTNET
KE7WWT-1>APMI01,TCPIP*,qAS,KE7WWT:OUTNET
KE7WWT-1>APMI01,TCPIP*,qAS,KE7WWT:OUTNET
KE7WWT-1>APMI01,TCPIP*,qAS,KE7WWT:OUTNET
KE7WWT-1>APMI01,TCPIP*,qAS,KE7WWT:OUTNET
AC8DG-9>EF0T9T,WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1,qAR,KJ4KFJ-15:qDl"5>/"6N}no spaces abcOUTNETabc_%
AC8DG-9>EF0T9T,WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1,qAR,KJ4KFJ-15:qDl"5>/"6N}146.520MHz w/spaces OUTNET 73_%
KE7WWT-1>APMI01,TCPIP*,qAS,KE7WWT:OUTNET
KE7WWT-1>APMI01,TCPIP*,qAS,KE7WWT:OUTNET
KE7WWT-1>APMI01,TCPIP*,qAS,KE7WWT:OUTNET
AC8DG-9>EF0T9T,WD7LEE-1,WIDE1*,WIDE2-1,qAS,WD8DX:qDl"5>/"6N}146.520MHz outnet OUTNET _%

Congrats for all those that made it a double satellite hop!

You CAN send a message via a 2M packet radio up to ISS, back down to an iGateway. From there to the APRS database When the message has the OUTNET tag, it gets send by Outernet to folks that have a DreamCatcher. Wow.

Thanks guys … You made my day!

Now I’m curious if you can actually direct a message into my “Mailbox” through Outernet. I will have to respond in kind and send a QSL message back to you via ISS or a cubesat when they fly over my QTH.

I will work on a parser to scan the incoming messages for WA4OSH-7, my Outernet “Mailbox”.

This works ok so far to get recent messages from my DreamCatcher with my Linux Laptop:

$ curl -s http://(ip address of my DreamCatcher)/DIRECT/getAPRS | jq -r .result

–Konrad, WA4OSH

You should try to skywave with a Dreamcatcher using the chat application. Then connect one of the Dreamcatchers to a Baofeng radio which uplinks to ISS.

Just an FYI if you want to clear off your table at a hamfest, then bringing the XYL is key. Items clear off the table pretty fast.

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We really can’t send a LoRa signal to the ISS. LoRa is 1.6 MHz wide. But, an old-school Kantronics TNC with a 2M radio can send a short message back at 1200 Baud. It can do the trick. Before someone (drug addict?) stole my Kenwood TM-710, I was able to regularly send packet data at 1200 baud through the ISS.

I will eventually get Direwolf running on a Raspberry Pi that has a UDRC hat. It can drive a Baofeng. It’s essentially a 1200 and 9600 baud packet modem. This is my (on hold) portable ISS terminal project using Direwolf w/RPi The old school 1200 and 9600 data needs to be abandoned. We need to move far beyond where I was 30 years ago, wire-wrapping a Z80 running Forth, etc.

Enter DreamCatcher running LoRaWAN or chat. Yes. I’m waiting for my DreamCatcher 3.03 for this reason. At one end, there would be an iGate-like connection into the APRS network over the Internet or into a wide-area high speed packet network here in the Seattle Area called HamWAN HamWAN is OFDM on 5.9 GHz. It’s very much line of sight. Although it’s good with multipath, it can’t penetrate foliage, make it through buildings, etc. It has a high PAPR and zero process gain. LoRaWAN could extend that network. Yes, the 433 and 915 MHz bands are an option, but these are both very crowded and unfortunately don’t allow any enforcement of the boundary between ham radio and the shared ISM bands. This is why I’m so interested in getting DreamCatcher transceiving on the 1240-1300 MHz band. It’s the Beyond Line of Sight high-speed data solution for hams.

Eventually there will be LEO satellites carrying LoRa store and forward for those places where 20-30 miles on the ground is not enough. But maybe in the future there’s a LEO Cubesat that is on a band that can repeat/relay a LoRa signal, we would have a high-speed connection for maybe a half of a dozen packets because that connection would be shared.
We have some really nice bands on 1.2 GHz, 3.3 GHz that could be carried aboard. Ideally, that satellite would carry a store and forward mechanism in it. It saves the data it got from the remote location and then dumps it when the LoRa ground station is in view. LoRa is very Doppler immune, ideal for the application.

–Konrad, WA4OSH

Any idea how to get the DC to beep? Maybe play a wave file / ringtone?

Again the goal goes back to have it alert me when a message comes in that matches at filter I set.

APRS Pager of sorts…

-liam

Liam,
The program to actually parse the data at first is going to live outside of the DC in a laptop. It will have to wake-up on a periodic basis and read the JSON file, parse through it for your callsign, etc. When one is found, it will need to create a notification. Your laptop will know how to deal with the notification. Next, it will have to know somehow that it’s already seen all of the messages up to some time. This is where that missing time stamp comes in.

I think I’m going to write this app in Node-RED so that we have access other facilities in the laptop. The language was invented by IBM and it’s portable across all sorts of platforms. In fact, it could live inside of the DreamCatcher once they see what can be done with it.

I have already installed it on my Linux laptop. If you are on a Windows platform and want to try it out: Windows Install. You can also run it on a Mac, Raspberry Pi, etc.

You will see what I’m up to. I think we’ll be able to build all sorts of applications to query the DreamCatcher with it and extend its capabilities. The key is to have good, working APIs that make building the applications much easier.

–Konrad, WA4OSH

I installed it. Feel free to share code! Thanks for working on this.

-liam

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OK … now if you can go to 127.0.0.1:1880 and get it up and running, watch a couple of introductory videos on YouTube. It’s a really easy language to learn. You pick the elements you want to run and connect the dots. You will see the large library of elements you can use for inputs and outputs.

–Konrad, WA4OSH

OK … I can query the DreamCatcher’s APRS API with Node-RED code. Now, I need to figure out how to parse out the call signs out of the text.

The first node is essentially a button that starts the process.
The next node makes the HTTP call to the API which returns a JSON data structure
The JSON node takes the JSON data structure and extracts the text.
The msg.payload dumps the output of the JSON node into the debug window, which you can see on the right.

On the left is a palette full of Node-RED functions that can be used to process the data.

–Konrad, WA4OSH

I’m not great at the network stuff.

Can two devices connect to the dreamcatcher at the same time? For example on my wifi network, can one computer run skylark ui and a second computer interrogate the dreamcatcher with the getAPRS ?

Yes. You can browse what’s on your dreamcatcher on one window and make queries on another window.

Here’s my DreamCatcher through the web interface you are familiar with

Here’s a command line querying my DreamCatcher

and … developing Node-RED code in yet another session that is also querying my DreamCatcher.

Cool, eh?

–Konrad, WA4OSH

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I answered your question for multiple sessions in one computer as yes.
The answer for multiple computers looking at the DreamCatcher at the same time is also yes.

One DreamCatcher can serve maybe a 5-15 people using laptops or tablets over Wi-Fi.

–Konrad, WA4OSH

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Screenshot from 2018-05-10 21-21-01

Screenshot from 2018-05-10 21-22-13

Screenshot from 2018-05-10 21-23-54

Note that the most recent message is on top, but I don’t have any idea when it was sent.

Note that KE7WWT’s messages are malformed. The OUTNET “callsign” is not padded on the right with spaces as required by the standard. Outernet should probably not forward mal-formed APRS messages.

OK here’s my NodeRED script … it parses through the JSON data structure looking for the : which is the beginning of the TO call sign. I still have some work to do. But it’s almost impossible to know if I’ve seen a message already without a date-time code included in the JSON record.

–Konrad, WA4OSH

Question. Not sure if this has been answered before… but for a message to get picked up and sent through Outernet, does the word ‘outernet’ need to be capitalized? Thx.

–liam

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“OUTNET” and yes, needs to be in all-caps.

Edit: by request, “outnet” (all smalls) works too, now.

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Perhaps that should be added to the user manual?

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