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moonpup

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Has anyone been able to reliably receive aprs text messages from the web? I can send and receive messages to myself from the vx-8r, but when I try to send myself a text message from a website like findu.com, I never receive it on the radio although I see the packets on aprs.fi. Also, I've had other stations send messages that I never get on the vx-8r but again see on aprs.fi.

Does anyone have any insight on this as it's driving me crazy.
 

moonpup said:
Has anyone been able to reliably receive aprs text messages from the web? I can send and receive messages to myself from the vx-8r, but when I try to send myself a text message from a website like findu.com, I never receive it on the radio although I see the packets on aprs.fi. Also, I've had other stations send messages that I never get on the vx-8r but again see on aprs.fi.

Does anyone have any insight on this as it's driving me crazy.
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I must be blind, I can not find a link that will allow me to send a message from the web.:confused:
 
Try openaprs.net. Before you can send a message from that site, you have to register via your APRS radio so they can confirm you're a licensed ham. It has instructions on how to do this. I've successfully sent messages from that one.
 
APRS Question:

If I send a message through the website, does it then go out every iGate in the world?

Also, if I send a message via radio, does it also go out every iGate in the world?
 
The findu.com message link does work, as you can see the packets and the message on the aprs.fi website. So it apparently appears to be sending the message.

My dilemma is that if I send a message to myself from the vx-8r over RF (aka VFO B aprs) my vx-8r will flash the strobe light and sound the message signal. At this point I see the message I sent show up in the list and the original message showing the ACK.

If I try the webgates or have someone send me a message from their vx-8r or other aprs capable radio over rf, I never get alerted or see any message arrive.

This is why I am stumped and don't understand why I can't receive all messages.
 
Just signed up for that 'openaprs' thingy. Want to try the messaging thing. Figure after making enough mistakes I'll probably figure it out, maybe. Oh well, what else do I have to do, right?
- 'Doc
 
APRS Question:

If I send a message through the website, does it then go out every iGate in the world?

Also, if I send a message via radio, does it also go out every iGate in the world?
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This is my understanding: Messages sent via radio or the web are forwarded to all the iGates. When a digipeater that is an iGate hears your beacon, it sees that you have a message waiting and sends it to you. It then records that the message was delivered (or not after however long is allowed) so that other iGates won't resend it. Sometimes the last part doesn't seem to work quick enough, so you get the message more than once (that's happened to me).

I don't think I've ever gotten a message to work from aprs.fi. I have sporadically gotten them from openaprs.net. The most consistent delivery that was from software has always been from UI-View, although that software is dead now.
 
UI-View is dead? Oh, I wish you hadn't said that. Why is it dead? I've found it being used quite often (and I use it quite often).
- 'Doc
 
W5LZ said:
UI-View is dead? Oh, I wish you hadn't said that. Why is it dead? I've found it being used quite often (and I use it quite often).
- 'Doc
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The author of the program passed away in 2004 and the source code was destroyed per his wishes. As a result, it cannot be updated to work with newer mapping programs or new Operating Systems.

I tried for weeks to get the program to work on Windows Vista. It was unstable and kept crashing because the code base is so old and is no longer compliant with Microsoft's standards for Windows Applications. I tried everything. I don't expect that this problem will be any better with Windows 7. That's what I meant by "dead"...it has no future.

It would be really nice if someone came out with a new application that was similar but worked with today's mapping programs and operating systems.
 
moleculo said:
This is my understanding: Messages sent via radio or the web are forwarded to all the iGates. When a digipeater that is an iGate hears your beacon, it sees that you have a message waiting and sends it to you. It then records that the message was delivered (or not after however long is allowed) so that other iGates won't resend it. Sometimes the last part doesn't seem to work quick enough, so you get the message more than once (that's happened to me).

I don't think I've ever gotten a message to work from aprs.fi. I have sporadically gotten them from openaprs.net. The most consistent delivery that was from software has always been from UI-View, although that software is dead now.
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I guess it's up to the iGate to determine when the message goes stale? Maybe that is a standard. It seems they persist for 15 days on aprs.fi.

I'm with Doc on this. UI-View still seems to be one of the most popular and I certainly enjoyed it. What other choices are there? I was thinking of setting up an iGate with it. What else do iGates use?
 
Well, I'm still stumped. I've tried sending messages to myself from openaprs.net and findu.com and none will show up on the vx-8r. I still see the packets going out and appearing on aprs.fi but I get zero messages on the radio.

Do I have something configured wrong on the radio? Does anyone receive messages on their radio whether from a webgate or over RF?
 
moonpup said:
Do I have something configured wrong on the radio? Does anyone receive messages on their radio whether from a webgate or over RF?
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If you are able to message yourself, I think you should be in good shape.
If someone else could message you, I would be almost positive you are properly configured.

The only thing I might be running different is wide1-1.
Everything else is pretty much standard.
 


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