APRX Config sytax for "Status"

[Jim Kinter]

I was asked to take over admin of a club's APRS igate at their tower site.
After a few rounds with Windoze things (laptop, nook, etc) and APRS software, I told them I wanted to move it to APRX, which I have been using for years.
I built up an older Pi2b with a fresh OS and 2.9 on it. Copied the config from my own k5ktf-4 igate, modified it for their ke5rcs-8, and today went to the tower and swapped it out.

All is working great : https://aprs.fi/#!call=KE5RCS-8

EXCEPT, in the bubble that pops up on the map, the STATUS message still shows UIView-32 in purple. Im assuming it will stay that way until it gets a packet changing it?
I have tried a couple different things in the config, but it doesnt seem to work.

Config:
beaconmode aprsis
beacon symbol "/r" lat "3044.63N" lon "09736.13W" comment "HOTARC Walburg RX-Only iGate" timefix
beacon raw ">APRX on R-Pi2b"

Looking at aprs.fi RAW, I dont see that second line.
2026-04-28 16:50:37 CDT: KE5RCS-8>APRX29,TCPIP*,qAC,T2RDU::KE5RCS-8 :PARM.Avg 10m,Avg 10m,RxPkts,IGateDropRx,TxPkts
2026-04-28 16:57:42 CDT: KE5RCS-8>APRX29,TCPIP*,qAC,T2QUEBEC:!3044.63N/09736.13WrHOTARC Walburg RX-Only iGate 

STATUS section only shows the last time the Windoze thing beaconed.
2026-02-24 18:26:03 - 2026-04-28 12:14:42 CDT: KE5RCS-8: UI-View32 V2.03


What am I missing?

TIA & 73
K5KTF

[Jim Kinter]

NM, I figured it out and its working perfect now.

Sorry for the wasted bytes...

[Jon Adams]

Hi Jim - 

I see the following on aprs.fi:

The stuff in purple appears to describe exactly what you've done. Maybe it just took a little while?

If I got this wrong, let me know.

You have reminded me that I need to get an aprx instance going for my own station.

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[Jim Kinter Jr.]

Hi Jon,

yeah, it just took a while to show up, maybe the status packet doesnt beacon as often?
But yes, working as desired now.

And now my personal one is offline (power fluctuation the other day? heard my Allstar repeater node also out there reboot...), need to go out to the shop and see WTH...
Its all on a UPS with fresh batteries, so dont know what happened....
but thats not the group's concern :-)

Thanks!
Jim



At 03:05 PM 5/1/2026, Jon Adams wrote:

Hi Jim -Â

I see the following on aprs.fi:

The stuff in purple appears to describe exactly what you've done. Maybe it just took a little while?
If I got this wrong, let me know.

You have reminded me that I need to get an aprx instance going for my own station.

On Fri, May 1, 2026 at 9:53 AM 'Jim Kinter' via Aprx software < aprx-s...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

I was asked to take over admin of a club's APRS igate at their tower site.

After a few rounds with Windoze things (laptop, nook, etc) and APRS software, I told them I wanted to move it to APRX, which I have been using for years.

I built up an older Pi2b with a fresh OS and 2.9 on it. Copied the config from my own k5ktf-4 igate, modified it for their ke5rcs-8, and today went to the tower and swapped it out.

All is working great : https://aprs.fi/#!call=KE5RCS-8

EXCEPT, in the bubble that pops up on the map, the STATUS message still shows UIView-32 in purple. Im assuming it will stay that way until it gets a packet changing it?

I have tried a couple different things in the config, but it doesnt seem to work.

Config:

beaconmode aprsis

beacon symbol "/r" lat "3044.63N" lon "09736.13W" comment "HOTARC Walburg RX-Only iGate" timefix

beacon raw ">APRX on R-Pi2b"

Looking at aprs.fi RAW, I dont see that second line.

2026-04-28 16:50:37 CDT: KE5RCS-8 >APRX29,TCPIP*,qAC,T2RDU::KE5RCS-8 :PARM.Avg 10m,Avg 10m,RxPkts,IGateDropRx,TxPkts

2026-04-28 16:57:42 CDT: KE5RCS-8 >APRX29,TCPIP*,qAC,T2QUEBEC:!3044.63N/09736.13WrHOTARC Walburg RX-Only iGateÂ

STATUS section only shows the last time the Windoze thing beaconed.

2026-02-24 18:26:03Â -Â 2026-04-28 12:14:42 CDT: KE5RCS-8: UI-View32 V2.03

What am I missing?

TIA & 73

K5KTF

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