I was working with my Tracker2 last night and noticed that it wouldn't digipeat one of my beacons so I was wondering how I might go about troubleshooting it.
Here's what I have: 1) Kenwood mobile rig connected to a late model T2 w/ Nuvi 350 (port b) -- this seems to work fine. 2) (port a) is running in KISS mode to APRSISCE/32 which also seems to be working fine (but it's not gating packets to the internet, it seems to just be receiving them). 3) FT-857 hooked up to monitor the RF traffic using a Signalink USB audio box into AGWPE and the AGW terminal 4) Beacon 1 - VX-8R. These packets get digipeated by #1 as expected. I see the beacon's message followed immediately by the digipeated packet with #1's call inserted. 5) Beacon 2 - Byonics AIO beacon. These packets get digipeated intermitently. Maybe 1/10 of the time but not with any obvious pattern. I see them on the FT-857's terminal and the VX-8R is picking them up as well. So, I'm wondering if the T2 isn't decoding the AIO's packets all the time (even though the other radios are) and if not, is there some way to tell and/or adjust that? A "silver bullet" would be nice, but absent that, if there was some way see where things were disappearing, that'd be a big help, too. Thanks in advance for any ideas. --bob K7RBW (-1, -7, -9, & -14)
