Beacons not Appearing on aprs.fi

dd.mari...@gmail.com

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Oct 6, 2023, 4:11:43 PM10/6/23

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My digipeater seems to be working properly. I can see my position on the aprs.fi map and my raw packets show up without error. However, when I go to the "beacons" tab on aprs.fi, I only see beacons from 09-07-2023 and earlier. I have been beaconing 24/7 since then and I see the raw data listed each time. My digipeater is W6SDM-11.

Any idea what's wrong?

Steve, W6SDM

Glenn O'Connor

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Oct 15, 2023, 10:30:45 AM10/15/23

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Two screen captures regarding W6SDM-11's issue.

Note the underlined differences between the

BEACON and RAW images. There's you dinner!

K0ION

SDM-RAW.PNG

SDM-BEACON.PNG

Heikki Hannikainen

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Oct 15, 2023, 12:20:42 PM10/15/23

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Looking at the raw packets, W6SDM-11 is only transmitting APRS position
packets, and APRS status packets (with a ">" character in the beginning of
the data). The beacons view on aprs.fi only shows non-APRS beacons which
were not detected as APRS packets at all, but W6SDM-11 is not transmitting
any of those. The status packets are shown here:

https://aprs.fi/?c=status&call=W6SDM-11

- Hessu

dd.mari...@gmail.com

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Oct 16, 2023, 4:10:45 PM10/16/23

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I see the differences but I still don't understand what's wrong. My BTEXT for my KPC 3+ reads: BTEXT >Local Repeater 145.210 MHz T162.2d Maricopa,AZ area W6SDM

My understanding is that BTEXT allows 128 characters.

dd.mari...@gmail.com

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Oct 16, 2023, 4:10:50 PM10/16/23

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I took out the >Local that I had following BTEXT and that seems to have fixed the problem. It looks like I'm sending beacons now.

Thanks for your help!

Steve, W6SDM

On Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 9:20:42 AM UTC-7 Heikki Hannikainen wrote:

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