[aprssig] Field station

[Heikki Hannikainen]

On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Jason KG4WSV wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Andrew Rich <vk4tec at tech-software.net> wrote:
>> I need to get back to plain text to use perl to split up the payload and
>> make use of it.
>
> Perl can handle binary data - see pack/unpack.
>
> I'm pretty sure there's a perl APRS parser somewhere, but I don't know
> if it does KISS.

   The Ham::APRS::FAP module has kiss_to_tnc2() and tnc2_to_kiss() 
functions for processing KISS APRS packets.

   http://search.cpan.org/src/HESSU/Ham-APRS-FAP-1.12/README
   http://search.cpan.org/dist/Ham-APRS-FAP/

   - Hessu, OH7LZB