Aprs – 15 selecting your station icon – Kenwood TH-D72E User Manual
Page 58
APRS – 15
SELECTING YOUR STATION ICON
Access Menu 3C0.
Select an icon which will be displayed on the monitors
of other stations as your ID. You may select an icon
depending on your current location.
• It is important that the icon conveys the operational status of
the station as well as the SSID. You can display and set the
following icons for the TH-D72.
KENWOOD (\K)
Eyeball (/E)
Lighthouse (\L)
School (/K)
Satellite (\S)
PC user (/L)
SUNNY (\U)
Balloon (/O)
RADIO (\Y)
Police (/P)
ARRL (\a)
RV (/R)
RACES (\c)
SHUTTLE (/S)
Gale Flags (\g)
SSTV (/T)
HAM store (\h)
Sailboat (/Y)
WorkZone (\j)
Person (/[)
Speedpost (Value
Singpost) (\m)
DF station (/\)
Triangle (\n)
WX (Weather station) (/_)
Small circle (\o)
Dish Antenna (/`)
Tornado (\t)
Bicycle (/b)
Wreck (\x)
HOSPITAL (/h)
Sheriff (/!)
Jeep (/j)
Digipeater (/#)
Truck (/k)
GATEway (/&)
Mic-E Repeater (/m)
Aircraft (/')
Node (/n)
Red Cross (/+)
ROVER (/p)
Home (/-)
QSO Repeater (/r)
X (/.)
Boat (/s)
Red Dot (//)
Truck (18-wheeler) (/u)
Fire (/:)
Van (/v)
Portable (Tent) (/;)
Big Question Mark (\.)
Motorcycle (/<)
IRLP/EchoLink (\0)
REILROAD ENGIN (/=)
APRStt (\A)
Car (/>)
BBS (/B)
Canoe (/C)
APRS supports approximately 200 icons. It allows users to
select each icon by specifying a combination of two ASCII
codes, for example, ! and /. One is a symbol code, and
the other is a table identification code (either /or \). If you
select “OTHERS”, use the following procedures:
1 Access Menu 3C1.
2 Select a symbol code, then press [
OK].
3 Select a a table identification code.
•
Overlay Icon Setting
For example, to set the Digipeater icon to the letter “S”,
select “Others” under the icon type menu, select “#” under
“Symbol”, then select “S” under “Table”.
Note:
X APRS icon codes (symbols/tables) are sometimes updated. You
can download up-to-date icon codes from the following website
(as of September 2010):
http://www.tapr.org/software_library.php?dir=/aprssig/dosstuff/APRSdos
From this website, click on the aprsXXX.zip file (where XXX is 3
alphanumeric characters) to download it. After downloading and
extracting the file, a README directory is created, which contains
the SYMBOLS.TXT file (icon codes).
X Set an icon that represents your operational status. (For example,
setting an Aircraft icon or Balloon icon to a fixed station will cause
confusion when a station receives a beacon.)