Altough APRSMSG works in APRS, is NOT a digipeater.
APRSMSG let send thru a web page messages to aprs users heard on a certain aprs server.
- You will have to insert above all your call. It's compulsory.
- You can then choose to who to send a message through the aprs server port choosing on the list that shows the heard calls that have messaging capability and at what time they were heard; to make the search easier you can go on the "Search" box more to right, and insert the first characters of the call to be searched. As you'll insert the characters, on the left will appear a call which begins for those characters.
- You must not be worried about inserting a list of digipeaters to reach the wished call. The list that you see in the html page is the path really listened by aprs server.
Then you can type in the text of the message (not more than 56 characters), and press the button "Send Message" at last. The text must have at least 4 characters.
A confirm message will appear, just write "yes" and click on the confirm button.
- If it's all OK it will appear an "message queued" answer, and after short time the msg will be really transmitted by the aprs server port.
The message will have as sender the APRSMSG call, and the body of the message will have as first word yr. name (which you've inserted on the html page), followed by ">", and the text you've written.
Here an example of as a message sent to IW3GRX by IK3ABC which sends him the message "hi hi from internet", that can appear on the monitor window:
APRSMSG>APRS,TCPIP,SERVER:
:IW3GRX :IK3ABC>hi hi from internet
Exists a limitation, in fact such a message doesn't ask the ack to the correspondent , therefore from web page you don't have the possibility of knowing whether it really has been received.