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Sent 15-Aug-03

Sorry for the late reply, but I see that Larry 'ANI and Bill 'UT have already posted you some hints. Here's a zipped-up copy of the DISPlay log typical of what we fly on the EOSS APRS beacon KPC-3+.

KPC3 Configuration Zip File

Here is the contents of that text file:

*** Here's the DISPlay log from the EOSS KPC-3+ APRS beacon
*** used w/ DJ-C1 on EOSS-49 back in '01. 73 de Mike W5VSI
-----snip ------
8BITCONV ON
ABAUD    4800
AUTOLF   ON
AX25L2V2 ON
AXDELAY  0
AXHANG   0
BEACON   EVERY 10 min
BKONDEL  ON
BLT 1 EVERY 00:01:00 CLEAR
BLT 2 EVERY 00:01:00 CLEAR
BLT 3 EVERY 00:05:00 CLEAR
BLT 4 EVERY 00:00:00 CLEAR
BREAK    OFF
BTEXT    EOSS-49 / CU SGC Cubesats, Windsor CO - ATV on 426.26 MHz.
BUDLIST  OFF NONE
CANLINE  $18
CANPAC   $19
CD       SOFTWARE
CHECK    30
CMDTIME  1
CMSG     ON
COMMAND  $03
CONLIST  ON W5VSI,K0ANI,K0UT,N0LP
CONMODE  CONVERS
CONOK    ON
CONPERM  OFF
CPACTIME OFF
CR       ON
CRSUP    OFF
CSTAMP   ON
CTEXT    W5VSI-11 Balloon Terminal
CTRL     A OFF   B OFF
CWID     EVERY 5 min
CWIDTEXT DE W5VSI/EOSS49
DAYTWEAK 8
DAYSTR   mm/dd/yy hh:mm:ss
DAMA     OFF
DAMACHCK 18
DBLDISC  OFF
DELETE   $08
DIGIPEAT OFF
DWAIT    0
ECHO     OFF
ESCAPE   OFF
FLOW     ON
FILTER   OFF
FRACK    4
FULLDUP  OFF
GPSHEAD 1 $GPRMC
GPSHEAD 2 $GPGGA
GPSHEAD 3 $GPGSA
GPSHEAD 4
GPSINIT ASTRAL
GPSPORT 4800 INVERTED CHECKSUM
GPSTIME VALID GGA
HBAUD    1200
HEADERLN ON
HID      ON
HTEXT
INTFACE  TERMINAL
KNTIMER  1
LEDS     ON
LCOK     ON
LFADD    OFF
LFSUP    OFF
LLIST    OFF NONE
LT 1 BLANK
LT 2 BLANK
LT 3 BLANK
LT 4 Blank
LTP 1 GPS VIA GATE,GATE,WIDE
LTP 2 GPS VIA GATE,GATE,WIDE
LTP 3 EOSS
LTP 4 GPS
LTRACK   16 LT2 TIME
MONITOR  OFF
MALL     ON
MAXFRAME 4
MAXUSERS 1
MBEACON  ON
MCON     OFF
MCOM     OFF
MHEADER  ON
MRESP    ON
MRPT     ON
MSTAMP   ON
MXMIT    ON
MYCALL   W5VSI-11
MYALIAS  EOSS49
MYDROP   0
MYNODE   BALNOD
MYPBBS   BALBOX
MYREMOTE *** my secret!
NDWILD   OFF
NEWMODE  ON
NOMODE   OFF
NTEXT    Welcome to the EOSS Balloon beacon K-Node
NUMNODES 0
PACLEN   64
PACTIME  AFTER 10
PASS     $16
PASSALL  OFF
PBBS     100
PBFORWRD NONE  EVERY 0
PBHEADER ON
PBHOLD   ON
PBKILLFW OFF
PBLIST   OFF NONE
PBLO     NEW VARIABLE
PBPERSON OFF
PBREVERS OFF
PERSIST  127
PID      OFF
PMODE    CMD
PTEXT    Welcome to the EOSS Balloon Beacon Mailbox
REDISPLA $12
RELINK   ON
RETRY    6
RING     ON
RNRTIME  12
RTEXT    *** Another dirty little secret!
SCREENL  0
SENDPAC  $0D
SLOTTIME 10
START    $11
STOP     $13
STREAMSW $7C
STREAMCA OFF
STREAMEV OFF
SUPLIST  OFF NONE
SWP      17,17,108
TELEMTRY 12
TRACE    OFF
TRFLOW   OFF
TRIES    6
TXDELAY  30
TXFLOW   OFF
UNPROTO  EOSS
UIDIGI   OFF NONE
UIDWAIT  OFF
UIFLOOD  disabled,30,NOID
UITRACE  disabled,30
USERS    1
XFLOW    OFF
XKCHKSUM OFF
XKPOLLED OFF
XMITLVL  17
XMITOK   ON
XOFF     $13
XON      $11