On 12/28/2014 12:51 PM, Angus Ainslie wrote:
issue #967 - add aprs beacon and message parsing
The FT1DR stores the APRS messages and beacons in the clone. This patch displays those messages in the settings tab.
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- based on the Yaesu vx8 driver
FWIW, The VX-8* also stored the APRS beacons and messages in the clone accessible part of the email. I never added anything to Chirp to access it, instead using a standalone Python script.
Sean Burford explored things further and had some better APRS parsing dump scripts (also python). He added additional APRS menu settings in issue #821
I don't have an FT1D to test with only a VX-8DR, but I would be interested to see if these bits can be back ported to the VX-8(D).
One hitch is that the memory layout for the APRS data is different on the original non-D VX-8, and the D version (VX-8D[RE]) due to storing 50 beacons vs. 40. It looks like the FT1D stores 60 beacons so it will also be different. It's been a while since I looked but I think the reason I didn't try to add the APRS beacons/messages to the memory structure definitions was not knowing how to handle the layout differences between the non-D and D in the same driver.
--Rob