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Aprs-7 receiving a message – Kenwood RC-D710 User Manual

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APRS-7

RECEIVING A MESSAGE

Each time a proper message is received, the frequency
display is interrupted to show information as below:

q

: Indicator

w

: Callsign (TX)

e

: Receive time

r

: Message

t

: TX/RX date

y

: Line number

• The display shows up to 67 characters of the message.
• “ 01” will appear to indicate the number of messages not yet

read.

• The following indicators appear depending on the types of

received messages:

Indicator Meaning

Message addressed to you

B

Bulletin message

!

Report by the National Weather Service

Reception acknowledgment (or rejection) to
your message

G

Message group

• “ XX” appears on the display when you have an unread

message (where XX is the number of unread messages).
When you verify the reception of a message (by pressing the
Tuning control), the message is marked as read. For each
message you view, then number (XX) decreases by 1. When
only 1 message is unread (“ 01”), viewing this message will
cause the icon to be removed from the display. (When
you enter the message list display and select a message
designated as unread by the “ XX” mark, the message will
be marked as read.)

• When a duplicate message from the same station is received,

the reception interrupt display does not appear and an error
tone sounds. When the frequency at that time appears on
the display, “dM”(duplicate Message) and the calling station's
callsign appears on the display.

Note:

This transceiver allows you to receive a message also when

the SSID does not match. However, it will not return a reception
acknowledgment.

The dedicated memory is used for storing both incoming and outgoing

messages. Receiving a new message when the memory is full causes
the oldest message to be deleted. A message not yet transmitted 5
times may be unexpectedly deleted. If the oldest message has not
been accessed using the List function when memory is full, a new
message does not replace the oldest message. This transceiver will
return a reject command and display “rM”.

This transceiver beeps each time it receives any type of APRS

packet. You may access Menu 624 (SOUND-RX BEEP) to
change this setting. The default is “ALL”.