[amsat-bb] Sgates and PC sat - something wrong perhaps?

[Sil <zl2cia@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

A day or so ago, I posted I note about the difficultly I've had getting my 
successful packets through NO-44 to appear on the "Stations Heard via 
PCSAT" website, namely http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/pcsat.cgi.

Roger, WA1KAT, very kindly replied with a most useful explanation.

That greatly improved my understanding, but did not, unfortunately, resolve 
the problem.

This is what happens.

I send the following packet to NO-44...

16:21:31T ZL2CIA>APU16N,W3ADO-1,SGATE Port=1 <UI C Len=60>:
=4116.65S\17445.50E-Wishing strength to those Frozen South.

NO-44 copies that  packet, and responds with...

16:21:34R ZL2CIA>APU16N,PCSAT-1*,SGATE Port=1 <UI C Len=60>:
=4116.65S\17445.50E-Wishing strength to those Frozen South.

Somewhere, an SGATE copies that and forwards it to FINDU. However, at FINDU 
the packet now looks like this...

ZL2CIA>APU16N,PCSAT-1,ZL3GR*,ZL1AMW-14,I:=4116.65S\17445.50E-Wishing 
strength to those Frozen South.

The asterisk (*) is now on ZL3GR, and not PCSAT-1. Neither ZL3GR, nor 
ZL1AMW could have copied my transmission directly.

Now (here, I'm guessing) FINDU sees this and assumes that my transmission 
was copied directly by a ground station, and not via NO-44.

Is this why my packets DO appear on 
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?zl2cia, but NOT on 
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/pcsat.cgi?

Or have I got the wrong end of the stick?.

In any case, it seems clear that my packets, and those from other stations, 
ARE indeed being digipeated by NO-44, ARE being copied by Sgates, ARE being 
forwarded to FINDU, but ARE NOT being displayed as "Stations Copied by PCSAT".

By-the-way, the text of the message refers to those suffering a severe 
snowstorm in the South Island.

What's wrong?

Sil - ZL2CIA.

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