[aprssig] APRS Hardware Survey

[Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)]

On 10/20/2011 12:25 PM, Stephen H. Smith wrote:
> On 10/20/2011 11:51 AM, Ben Rampling wrote:
>>
>> 101 Firenet [APF]
>>
>>
>
> Further, how is Firenet showing up in this list?   Firenet is 
> essentially a clone of an APRS-IS server operating outside the APRS-IS 
> (rather than a user transmitting to the APRS-IS).      Is someone 
> gating data from the Firenet server into the APRS-IS,  making it 
> appear as a virtual user?     If so, wouldn't the station doing the 
> cross-gating show up instead as the "source"?    What's going on here??

Firenet is two things.  It's the APRS-IS subnet server that Pete 
described and it's also an assigned ToCall prefix of APF.  
Unfortunately, not all APF prefixes are actually firenet.  There seems 
to be an undocumented APRS platform using APFDnn (from 01 through 91, 
non-contiguous) and another using APFRnn (specifically 38 and 67).

If you set an APRS-IS filtered feed to u/APF* -u/APFMET/APFIRE/APFH2O 
(or just u/APFD*/APFR*), you'll get these stations which seem to be 
mostly Fn prefix callsigns.  If anyone knows for sure (not just based on 
their comment) what these stations are running, it'd be nice to get it 
documented at http://www.aprs.org/aprs11/tocalls.txt

Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32

PS.  Here's a few sample packets:

F1ZXL-3>APFD05,WIDE1-1,qAR,F1ZXL-10:;434.850- 
*111111z4503.61N/00621.86Er434.850 -1600
F5ZQD-3>APFD09,F5ZQB-3,F1ZCJ-3*,WIDE3-1,qAS,F4AUY:=4245.20N200150.29E#PHG3060/Digi 
Col de la Chioula dep09 Alt 1439m
F1ZXR-3>APFD09,F5ZQB-3,F1ZCJ-3*,WIDE4-2,qAS,F4AUY:=4255.21N200135.38E#PHG3060/DIGINED:Pour 
info => list
F5ZZQ-3>APFD11,WIDE1-1,WIDE4-4,qAS,F1FVM:!4247.41NV00210.90E# ( Relais 
APRS VHF Le Clat dep 11 ) 1
F5ZEO-3>APFD33,F4FMQ-4,WIDE1*,WIDE3-3,qAR,f4fmq-15:!4447.83N/00004.91E#PHG4560 
F5zeo Digi solaire+eolien
F4ETJ-1>APFD17,WIDE1-1,WIDE2-2,qAR,F5BRF-3:@000000h4540.44N/00025.74W->73s 
de Fabrice TT4 f4etj at akeonet.com/A=000043
F5ZUN>APFD84,WIDE3-2,qAR,F4GKN:!4400.23N/00457.55E#PHG3160/ARV84 
http://ed84.ref-union.org 2
F6KNP-3>APFD39,HB9G-4,WIDE1*,WIDE2-1,qAS,HB3YNV-10:!4658.33NU00553.19E#PHG2830 
Digi APRS du Mt Poupet Dept39 UIdigi1.9b3
F4FMQ-4>APFD33,WIDE1-1,WIDE2-2,qAR,f4fmq-15:=4453.53N/00043.39W#PHG3260 
Digined Linux en test - f4fmq at free.fr
F6KOH-4>APFD76,TCPIP*,qAC,T2FRANCE:!4930.50N/00009.75E&PHG5450/Gateway 
HF VHF UHF http://www.shtsf.com
F4UJU-13>APFD49,WIDE2-1,WIDE2-2,F0DVI-5,qAS,F0DVI-5:;145.762.5*141023z4635.75N/00005.62WmF5ZZK-Rptr 
du 79.
F4BQH-3>APFD24,F1OYP-3,WIDE1*,WIDE2-2,qAR,F5PON-3:=4510.75N/00039.39E#73 
de Marsac sur l' Isle (24) {UIV32N}
F6KLI-4>APFD33,WIDE1-1,WIDE2-2,qAR,f6kli-15:!4453.91N/00014.56W#PHG5360 
RELAIS APRS Girondin f6kli at wanadoo.fr
F6KIT-3>APFD05,F1ZYZ-3,WIDE1,qAS,F5ONG-3:;433.15-16*111111z4429.72N/00613.05Er 
- Colombis 1750M
F5ZXN-3>APFD05,F1ZXL-3*,WIDE1,qAR,F1ZXL-10:;430.10+16*111111z4436.65N/00636.70Er 
Intercom de Cherine 2375M
F1ZXL-3>APFD05,WIDE1-1,qAR,F1ZXL-10:;145.262EL*111111z4453.43N/00642.67ErLink 
Des 3 Vallees
F5ZQC-3>APFD09,F5ZTO-3,F5ZQB-3*,FRA4-2,qAR,F4GCF-13: New utilise WIDE1-1 
FRAn-n EUn-n sysop F6DEV f6dev2 at gmail.fr
F5ZXN-3>APFD05,F1ZXL-3*,WIDE1,qAR,F1ZXL-10:!4435.76N/00638.89E#PHG3930 
STATION DE SKI DE RISOUL (05)