Tuesday, July 26, 2011

The meaning of >F

I have been playing with using the Kenwood TH-D72 as a standalone digipeater and fired up the FoxTrak APRS tracker I built last year. The FoxTrak is a TinyTrak clone using DK7IN firmware. I had not noticed a problem before when using a TNC connected to PC software, but now I found that the D72 will not display the FoxTrak's packets. Instead, it interrupts the frequency display and puts >F G4ILO-12 on the first line of the display. The packets are digipeated but they don't appear in the radio's list of received stations.

I'm guessing that >F is some sort of error status but it is not listed on page APRS-3 of the user manual where the other status indicators are listed. Does anyone know what it means, or how to configure the FoxTrak so that the Kenwood will display the beacons?

1 comment:

Steve Buchan said...

Indicator Meaning

>F Beyond filter type

From Page 46 of CD ROM Documentation.

I did not realize .. but there are two user manuals .. the printed one that can with the HT, and a more comprehensive one on the CD-ROM

73's

Steve Buchan
VE7ORA
steve@stevebuchan.org