First real qso via GO-32…
I was experimenting with APRS messaging via GO-32 this morning, after being simply overrun by Mexican hams earlier in the morning on AO-51. W7KKE runs a GO-32 SatGate in Lincoln City, Oregon (a place I’ve visited many times) and was apparently listening when I messaged him this morning via my TH-D7. I wasn’t using a computer, so it was rather like text messaging from a cheap phone, but here are the messages as recorded in my HT.
ID ID TH-D7G AMSG 01 AMSG 3,W7KKE-1,73s,I AMSG 02 AMSG *,W7KKE-1,handheld here,H AMSG 03 AMSG M,W7KKE-1,Good to see some GO-32 activity!,51 AMSG 04 AMSG 1,W7KKE-1,first qso on go32,G AMSG 05 AMSG M,W7KKE-1,Good morning!,50 AMSG 06 AMSG *,W7KKE-1,hi ken,F AMSG 07 AMSG 0,VA3SU-1,test,E AMSG 08 AMSG B,4XTECH-12,D7&D700 posits use 145.9s,3 AMSG 09 AMSG B,4XTECH-12,APRS msgs and clients use 145.85 Upl,2 AMSG 10 AMSG B,4XTECH-12,su APRS!!Use pth via 4XTECH,1 AMSG 11 AMSG 0,VA3SU-1,hi there ,D
Addendum: Using the information from here, it appears that the first number after the AMSG statement is either an M (indicating that the message is Mine), a B (bulletin), an asterisk (meaning the transmission was acknowledged) or a number (indicating the number of times that it will retry to send it). You can see that my attempt to reach VA3SU was unsuccessful, but that W7KKE acked a couple of my packets.