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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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Add support for full CTCSS and DCS beacon options #478

Open bjpetit opened 1 year ago

bjpetit commented 1 year ago

This change adds the ability to include the tone type specifier to a beacon's frequency info. Today a beacon can include the T{number} field to specify a tone. The APRS spec includes support for CTCSS tone squelch and DCS codes. http://www.aprs.org/info/freqspec.txt With this change the tone argument can be set to a value of the form specified in the spec. For example, specifying a CTCSS squelch of 107.3, the TONE argument can be set to C107, or if a DCS code of 047 is to be specified the TONE value can be set to D047. If the TONE argument in a beacon line is set to just a numeric value, it will assume this is specifying a tone specifier as it always has and will add a leading T to the value specified.

I looked at the decoding path and it appears that the the beacon decode path already understands the different tone leading characters.

This change would imply a documentation change to add these options to the TONE argument in beacon lines.

wb2osz commented 1 year ago

Thank you for the suggestion.