Purpose of CBEACON

[David Rose]

I monitor the frequency that I'm using with Direwolf. I see the following

ERROR!!!  Unknown APRS Data Type Indicator "W"
Use of "BEACON" in the destination field is obsolete.  You can help to improve the quality of APRS signals.

I removed the dest=BEACON and that error goes away. 

What is the purpose of the CBEACON command? By removing that does it wreck the real purpose of the line?

David

K2LJL

[David Rose]

I tested for a while removing the dest=BEACON and didn't see any errors. I did however notice that my Node CANOE wasn't showing on my DigiPi screen. 

I just put it back to see if that is related and now I get this same error when viewing from Direwolf on BPQ32 system. 

CANOE audio level = 40(10/5)    ___||||||
[0.5] CANOE>BEACON,KM4BLG-10:CANOE Node<0x20>
ERROR!!!  Unknown APRS Data Type Indicator "C"

Use of "BEACON" in the destination field is obsolete.  You can help to improve the quality of APRS signals.

Tell the sender (CANOE) to use the proper product identifier from https://github.com/aprsorg/aprs-deviceid

[Craig]

Hi David,

CBEACON is a generic packet, no position, no icon, just a routing table and some text.  It's
more appropriate for AX.25, not APRS.

PBEACON is APRS-oriented with icons, positions, comments, etc.

You might find the direwolf manual interesting in this regard,

   https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wb2osz/direwolf/dev/doc/User-Guide.pdf


best,
-craig
KM6LYW

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