Yaesu FT1XDR APRS issues

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hoochrulez55
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Joined: Fri Jun 10, 2016 5:31 am
Location: Leamington Ontario Canada
Real Name: Hooch

Yaesu FT1XDR APRS issues

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June 7th was my last beacon transmitted. Using the same set up from home, work, and the surrounding area, I can no longer receive acknowledgement of my beacon and it does not appear on aprs.fi I have no idea what's going on. I can receive packets coming in no problem, its the tx on the beacon that doesn't get out. I have contacted Yaesu and the guy told me that an igate is critical to the digipath. So perhaps the home connection site changed the path? This is a brand new radio. I have reset it to factory settings and tried aprs on vfo mode with no luck. I then restored from the SD card. I am racking my brain for any hints as to a setting I changed but I can't come up with anything. I have looked at the youtube videos to set aprs up for this radio and what not. I have made sure all of my settings are matched up. Just like I had them before. I was going through a local clubs home connection site (which i believe is a digipeater not an IGATE, as it is represented by a little house and not a big "I" on aprs.fi). I multihop from there to other repeaters that are hooked to the internet using the standard WIDE 1-1 and WIDE 2-1 digipaths. It just stopped working two days ago. I used the settings below to access an igate in a bigger city close to me yesterday with no success. Can anyone offer any insight to my issue? Listing settings I have on the radio below:

Frequency: 144.390
No Offset or Tone

DISP(hold button)> 9 APRS

1> OFF
2> APY01D Default
3> all settings switched ON (filter)
4> Modem ON at 1200 bps
5> Default settings MSG FLASH (4 secs default)
6> MSG GROUP G1 ALL******
7> MSG TEXT (none)
8> APRS MUTE OFF
9> APRS POP UP (default settings)
10> APRS RINGER (defaults ON settings)
11> APRS UNIT (default)
12> TX DELAY 300ms
13> BEACON INFO defaults> ambiguity at 1 dig
14> BEACON INTERVAL 10 mins
15> BEACON STATS TEXT (default)
16> BEACON TX (auto)
17> COMM Port Setting (default off)
18> Digi Path 1. WIDE 1-1 2. WIDE 2-1
19> GPS Datum WGS-84
20> GPS Power ON
21> GPS Time Set AUTO
22> GPS UNIT default
23> CallSign APRS VA3BVH-7
24> My Position GPS
25> My Symbol Human Person
26> Position Comment IN SERVICE
27> Smart Beaconing OFF
28> Time Zone UTC -400

73,
Bryan
VA3BVH
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