Kenwood 144 Receiving Aprs Data, Indicator, Meaning, What is Included?, New APRS, Duplicate

RECEIVING APRS DATA

Each time new APRS data is received, the frequency display is interrupted to show information as below:

STA CON 96 BCONDUP

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Position

comment

(or status text)

•The received APRS data may include information on an object such as a hurricane or tornado. In this case, the name of the object appears instead of a call sign.

•The transceiver restores the frequency display after approximately 10 seconds pass or when you press any key.

Note: When you receive APRS data that you transmitted, the frequency display is not interrupted. “MY PACKET” will appear at the bottom of the display. This could happen when one or more digipeaters {page 72} are used.

If a received packet does not include new (or proper) APRS data, the frequency display is not interrupted. An indicator such as “dP” appears depending on the types of data. See the table.

STA CON 96 BCONDUP

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Indicator	Meaning	What is Included?
	Duplicate position	Same comment as the
dP		previous one from the
	comment	same station
dS	Duplicate status	Status text already
	text	received
	Beyond position	Data from a station
>P		outside the selected
	limit
		range {page 75}
Q ?1	Query	Request for sending
		information
??	Packet that cannot be decoded

1The transceiver automatically transmits the appropriate information in approximately 2 minutes after receiving a request.

Note: The APRS programs for PCs have entry fields for a position comment and status text. The data entered to these two fields are transmitted as separate packets.

This transceiver beeps each time it receives new or duplicate APRS data. You may access Menu 1–5–3 (BEEP) to change this setting. The default is “ALL”.

Selections	Key Pressed	New APRS	Duplicate
		Data	APRS Data
OFF	No beep	No beep	No beep
KEY	Beep	No beep	No beep
KEY+NEW	Beep	Beep	No beep
DATA
ALL	Beep	Beep	Beep

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