[aprssig] Is the APRS Spec for APRS Data Type Identifier just randomly ignored? Should it be?

[Steve Dimse]

On Aug 18, 2005, at 12:20 AM, James Washer wrote:

> What about a packet like "W6BXN-3>APTW01,WIDE,qAo,KF6HJO:TARC WX"
>
> Clearly an APRS packet, DTI of a Telemetry packet, but it is  
> obviously not a telemetry packet. Would you not consider this an  
> error?
>

The DTI  is T, but telemetry packets always start with T#, that is  
what my telemetry parsing code looks for, and packet that starts with  
T# is flagged as telemetry. Even a packet like T#ARC WX won't result  
in an appearance on the error.cgi page though, because the telemetry  
values are not parsed out when the packet comes in, that occurs when  
a request is made to view the telemetry.

Steve K4HG