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Dire Wolf is a software "soundcard" AX.25 packet modem/TNC and APRS encoder/decoder. It can be used stand-alone to observe APRS traffic, as a tracker, digipeater, APRStt gateway, or Internet Gateway (IGate). For more information, look at the bottom 1/4 of this page and in https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf/blob/dev/doc/README.md
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Height off by 10 on Beacon #248

Closed wcravens closed 4 years ago

wcravens commented 4 years ago

I configured the following beacon... PBEACON delay=1 every=30 overlay=S symbol="House QTH" lat##^07.389N long=##^18.759W power=50 height=30 gain=8.3 comment="" via=WIDE2-1

But when it goes out on the air the height is reported as 40. At first I thought it was just a glitch or that the packet got corrupted over the air. But it isn't. It reports height=40 every time. It also reports power as 49.

dranch commented 4 years ago

APRS PHG settings like height, power, etc. are not arbitrary. There are limited, specific options allowed:

http://aprsisce.wikidot.com/phg

I don't believe this is a bug and if you agree, please close this issue.

wcravens commented 4 years ago

Roger, Roger. I'll close the issue. This could be good fodder for the documentation though.