Re: [sarex] ISS Unproto Destination Address

[Miles <wf1f@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am also in agreement with Stan,
the name is more important than location.
Contesting and paper chasing does have it benefits to
amateur radio.
hover its the people that are more important than location.
Lets have fun and keep it friendly.
When i see a (computer generated string of aprs code) without
any human text, i assume that the station that sent that string
vi ISS is Unmanned and therefor I do not send back a welcome/hello
message.

when i see something friendly like this:
N2ABCD>NOCALL*>GEORGE: <<UI>>:   n2abcd@amsat.org
I am more inclined to try to start a conversation.

verses
KB2ABCD-3>NOCALL*>3Y1Q0W [09/22/01  07:50:06]: <<UI>>:'fH~l j/]
Which I assume No-one is home





As bob b. noted, there is a bug a few APRS software packages:
If you want anyone with the Kenwood all-in-one APRS Radios to see you
and
many of the other APRS software,  then the UNPROTO must begin with one
of
the more common generic callsigns:  BEACON,CQ,QST,ID,ALL, etc..

Lets hope that these problems can be fixed.

73 all and enjoy.

Next year more toys for ISS

Miles


Stan Vandiver wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Maybe I'm under the mistaken impression that ariss.net *only* takes its
> positions from the body of the packet, either in grid square or LAT/LON
> formats. I don't remember that it parses the header of the packet to get the
> position report.
> 
> In a keyboard QSO.... if I were only going to receive ONE packet from
> someone, then I would rather know their name than their location.  If I see
> someone on the ISS for the first time and want to say hi, I'd rather that they
> use their name on the destination address so that I can say "hi [name]"
> instead of "hi [callsign]". That is what makes this method seem more friendly
> (and efficient) to me.  And with my poor memory, I may not remember your
> name until we have said hi to each other many times.
> 
> Well, that's my 2 cents worth...
> 
> 73 de Stan/W4SV
> 
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