[aprssig] K5OBY Emergency Beacon

[Ron Tonneson]

Findu does not recognize these as an emergency beacon.  They only have the word emergency in the comment field.  Per the 
APRS spec an emergency beacon should have \ between the lat and long and ! after the long.  These have / and x.

Ron - K0QVF

Andrew Rich wrote:

> Only started doing it too
> 
> K5OBY-7>APX160,TCPIP*,qAC,K5OBY-7:=2954.30N/09539.37WxPHG5100XASTIR-Linux
> email to: k5oby at kkoby.com
> K5OBY-7>APX160,TCPIP*,qAC,K5OBY-7:=2954.30N/09539.37WxPHG5100XASTIR-Linux
> email to: k5oby at kkoby.com
> K5OBY-7>APX160,TCPIP*,qAC,K5OBY-7:=2954.30N/09539.37WxPHG5100XASTIR-Linux
> email to: k5oby at kkoby.com
> K5OBY-7>APX160,TCPIP*,qAC,K5OBY-7:=2954.30N/09539.37WxPHG5100XASTIR-Linux
> email to: k5oby at kkoby.com
> K5OBY-7>APX160,TCPIP*,qAC,K5OBY-7:
> K5OBY-7>APX160,TCPIP*,qAC,K5OBY-7:=2954.30N/09539.37WxPHG5100XASTIR-Linux
> email to: k5oby at kkoby.com
> K5OBY-7>APX160,TCPIP*,qAC,K5OBY-7:=2954.30N/09539.37WxPHG5100XASTIR-Linux
> email to: k5oby at kkoby.com
> K5OBY-7>APX160,TCPIP*,qAC,K5OBY-7:=2954.30N/09539.37WxPHG5100XASTIR-Linux
> email to: k5oby at kkoby.com
> K5OBY-7>APX170,TCPIP*,qAC,K5OBY-7:=2954.30N/09539.37WxPHG5100XASTIR-Linux
> email to: k5oby at kkoby.com
> 
> K5OBY-7>APX170,TCPIP*,qAC,K5OBY-7:=2954.30N/09539.37WxPHG5100EMERGENCY
> XASTIR-Linux email to: k5oby at kkoby.com
> K5OBY-7>APX170,TCPIP*,qAC,K5OBY-7:=2954.30N/09539.37WxPHG5100EMERGENCY
> XASTIR-Linux email to: k5oby at kkoby.com
> K5OBY-7>APX170,TCPIP*,qAC,K5OBY-7:=2954.30N/09539.37WxPHG5100EMERGENCY
> XASTIR-Linux email to: k5oby at kkoby.com
> K5OBY-7>APX170,TCPIP*,qAC,K5OBY-7:=2954.30N/09539.37WxPHG5100EMERGENCY
> XASTIR-Linux email to: k5oby at kkoby.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Rich [mailto:vk4tec at tech-software.net]
> Sent: Sunday, 30 October 2005 7:21 AM
> To: kc7zru at arrl.net; TAPR APRS Mailing List
> Subject: RE: [aprssig] K5OBY Emergency Beacon
> 
> Have u re-checked the raw packets
> 
> Could it have been a corrupted packet ?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org
> [mailto:aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org]On Behalf Of Tate
> Sent: Sunday, 30 October 2005 7:14 AM
> To: aprssig at lists.tapr.org
> Subject: [aprssig] K5OBY Emergency Beacon
> 
> Just picked up an EMERGENCY beacon via I-net from Kevin's xastir station.
> 
> Looked up and called what dexonline.com reports as his home phone number.
> First person to answer was apparently not able to communicate well - never
> did make any sense out of that. A younger sounding female took the phone
> and said there was no one living there by that name. Thinking I'd
> mis-dialed the number, called back. Same result.
> 
> Is there anyone in Houston that knows Kevin and could check up on him?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> K5OBY
> KOBY, KEVIN F
> 
> (from www.dexonline.com)
> Koby Kevin F
> 16303 DISTANT ROCK LN HOUSTON TX
> (281) 855-3180 - folks at this number say there's no one there by this name.
> 
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