[aprsspec] Re: APRS Activity Flag

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Robert Bruninga wrote:

> Some time ago we debated a user activity flag that would
> indicate HUMAN presence at a station (detected by
> APRS activity or mouse movement or APRS with FOCUS
> in the last net-cycle time (10 or 30 mins).
>
> The bit used was the CASE of the NORTH/SOUTH byte.
>
> Lower Case means a human is active at the station.
> Uppercase means a human has not touched APRS
> in over 10 (or 30) mins...
>
> Has anyone other than APRSdos implemented this?

We have not implemented this in Xastir.


> If not, do you accept LOWER case for the N/S byte
> in the Position formats...

Yes  Uncompressed position reports
Yes  GPRMC
Yes  GPGGA
Yes  GPGLL
No   Mic-E (not possible)
No   Base-91 Compressed (not possible)

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