Keith,
It looks like i have a lot to learn.
Thank you for the great info. I don't have another TNC and radio so Im using
your Term option.
Here is what i get
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cmd:send kd5htz-9 test
<Digi Echo>
KD5HTZ-9>APOT2A,SANDIA*,WIDE2-1::KD5HTZ-9 :test{aa
>From KD5HTZ-9: test
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No ack,
Adrian
KD5HTZ
--- In [email protected], "Keith VE7GDH" <ve7...@...> wrote:
>
> Adrian (callsign?) wrote...
>
> > Is there a way to test to see of the T2 is sending a acknowledgement
> > to the message sender? Currently persons sending me messages say
> > they never get an acknowledgement.
>
> Sure. Just power up another radio and a TNC and fire up a terminal
> program and watch what your T2 is sending while another station sends a
> message to the T2. If you studied the "APRS spec" so you understood the
> correct syntax, you could even send a message from that TNC to the T2.
>
> :<callsign> :hello...{01
>
> You might see something like this in your terminal program:
>
> :VE7GDH-2 :hello...{01
>
> VE7GDH-2>APOT21,SSI [07/14/2009 08:23:43]: <UI>:
> :VE7GDH :ack01
>
> The first line was typed into a terminal program with the TNC in
> converse mode and with the MON ON in the TNC so I could see what was
> being received. The colon makes it a message. VE7GDH-2 was that station
> it was sent to. It happens to be using a T2-135.The second line is the
> ACK coming back from the other station via the digi SSI. It was sent to
> VE7GDH which was the station that originated the message.
>
> If you don't have another TNC, just connect your T2 to a terminal
> program and type "K" and hit enter to put it in converse mode and
> proceed to send a message to yourself. Don't forge to turn MON ON so you
> can see what if anything comes back. For it to work, you would need to
> hear your message coming back from a digipeater... e.g. PATH WIDE2-1
> should hopefully get you to the nearest WIDEn-N digi. If he digi hears
> your message, and if you hear it coming back from the digi, your T2
> should respond and try and send itself an ACK. It would look something
> like the following.
>
> :VE7GDH-2 :hello me...{05
>
> <Digi Echo>
> VE7GDH-2>APOT21,SSI*::VE7GDH-2 :hello me...{05
>
> From VE7GDH-2: hello me...
>
> <Digi Echo>
> VE7GDH-2>APOT21,SSI*::VE7GDH-2 :ack05
>
> It's too bad you didn't give your callsign (and the SSID in your T2) so
> we could have looked to see what your T2 was sending... including
> message ACKs if they made it to an IGate.
>
> Of course, you could just go to aprs.fi and look up the callsign in the
> T2 and look at the raw data. Again, you would have to be making it to an
> IGate for that to work.
>
> 73 es cul - Keith VE7GDH
> --
> "I may be lost, but I know exactly where I am!"
>
