APRS

M1CMN · Post by **M1CMN** » Thu 06 May 2010 3:04 pm

Hi all,

I am new to the forum to please be gentle!

how do i get the software to produce the .txt file that UIVIEW requires?

on a seperate note - I have tried the built in APRS feature, which works, but seems to have a different LONG/LAT to what i have setup in the station settings, its really odd, does anyone know why this would happen?

thanks in advance
Matt

Post by **steve** » Thu 06 May 2010 4:14 pm

M1CMN wrote:how do i get the software to produce the .txt file that UIVIEW requires?

Cumulus automatically produces the wxnow.txt file, in the folder where you installed it.

on a seperate note - I have tried the built in APRS feature, which works, but seems to have a different LONG/LAT to what i have setup in the station settings, its really odd, does anyone know why this would happen?

I'm pretty confident that Cumulus sends the correct co-ordinates to APRS. What have you entered in Cumulus, and what is it sending to APRS?

M1CMN · Post by **M1CMN** » Thu 06 May 2010 4:27 pm

Thanks Steve,

in station settings i have 51.5.29n / 1.10.40e which is correct.
when the aprs settings are enabled the object is in this location
51.5.48n / 1.10.66e

Matt

Post by **steve** » Thu 06 May 2010 4:33 pm

I think you're confusing degrees/minutes/seconds with degrees and decimal minutes, which is the format APRS uses.

51 deg 5 min 29 sec = 51 deg 5.48 min
1 deg 10 min 40 sec = 1 deg 10.66 min

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