Figured out why my fixed coordinates were not populating in Beaconing

[Kevin Zari]

Apparently the end user doesn't need to enter a - sign for western hemisphere longitude. When they do, the aprsd.conf file will have two and the parsing of the config file will fail.

@KM6LYW maybe you could check for this and alert user during initialization ?

-Kevin (KK4YEL) 

[Craig]

Hi Kevin,

-123.456 is the proper format for the west
12.345 is the proper format for north

Any spaces will cause problems, in fact, i trim off any leading/trailing spaces if the user types them there

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[Kevin Zari]

I entered -80 something and the file contained —80 something.  Meaning it had appended an extra - sign. 

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On Sep 14, 2026, at 13:25, Craig <km6...@gmail.com> wrote:

 Hi Kevin,

[Kevin Zari]

And sorry, when I replied from email, my signature got inserted.  I didn’t want anyone to think I was directing that at you or anyone in the group. 

-Kevin (KK4YEL)