Mark,
The document does not define the complete set of conditions under which a given packet type could be transmitted. To be fair, that was not the document's intent. The combination of the document and your operational experience together tells the story adequately for my purposes (as an amateur operator, not as a professional systems engineer for high-reliability space systems), but the document does not do so by itself.
73, Ryan AI6DO
On Saturday, June 2, 2018, 8:19:31 AM PDT, Mark L. Hammond marklhammond@gmail.com wrote:
Actually, I think the answer is in there to match myremarks:
"PFS3-11 > QST-1 :<BBS Broadcast> This is a packet containing information from the file system, either directory updates or a part of a file. The words between the < > are inserted to avoid filling up thescreen with potentially unprintable characters and strings of textin a message.
So, it's these packets that you see in response to a directory or filerequest. They are the "flood" initiated by groundstations...the other status type PFS3-11 packets are much less frequent(we can command the bird to change their frequency, within limits).
Yes, in this case it's safe trust my operational experience ;) Beendoing these birds since AO-16/DO-17/WO-18/LO-19. The basic PBBS isthe same, for all these years. Grateful the Wisp client still runson Win10!
Mark N8MH