This morning, while getting ready for Saturday's hamfest, I saw this:

10:05:32R INDIO>RK3KPK Port=1 <UA R F>

This call is from near Moscow. INDIO is one of our digis.

Yes, INDIO is a digi in INDIO, Claifornia. It appears to be a KPC3 version 9 using the TOCALL of APN390.

The TOCALL of RK3KPK could also be a Mic-E formatted packet at a Latitude of 3K 3K.0K in the format DD MM.mmN where message bits determine if the digit is a digit in the call or a letter. But in my quick look, I don't see any way that a "K" can appear. The letters P though Y can appear if the message bits are set. And the letters A through J can appear if a CUSTOM message is set. But I don't see a way for K to be set.

Though someone may have a glitch in their Mic-E encoding algorithm. But then since this is a Kantronics, it would not be generating a Mic-E packet anyway...

So, close but no-cigar... Maybe Lynn who has coded Mic-E more recently than I can see it...

Bob, Wb4APR

Thomas,

Now that you mention it, I recall a few times when my own system would lock up, and then eventually empty the buffer. Still, the INDIO digi is on the standard US APRS frequency of 144.390 MHz.

Alan WA4SCA

-----Original Message----- From: sarex-bounces@AMSAT.Org [mailto:sarex-bounces@AMSAT.Org] On Behalf Of Thomas Frey Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 3:37 PM To: APBIDDLE@MAILAPS.ORG Cc: AMSAT-BB; SAREX-BB; Alan P. Biddle Subject: [sarex] Re: RK3KKPK?

Alan P. Biddle schrieb:

I got the following note from a ham in the Palm Springs, CA area:

This morning, while getting ready for Saturday's hamfest, I saw this:

...

10:05:32R INDIO>RK3KPK Port=1<UA R F> 10:05:51R INDIO>RK3KPK Port=1<RR R F R1> 10:07:03R INDIO>RK3KPK Port=1<RR R F R2>

This call is from near Moscow. Is it possible it is from the ISS? (INDIO is one of our digis.)

There is an RK3KPK, Andrey Mironow, who was an RS satellite command

station

years ago.

Any answer I can give about how his call ended up on a WIDE1-1 US digi string?

Alan WA4SCA

Hello Alan

One day I observed the same effect with US calls. I think the TNC was blocked over Russia and "uloaded" over California.