Setting Your Own Station Call Sign - Yaesu FT2DR Instruction Manual

APRS initial settings
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Setting your own station call sign

Register your own station call sign in order to send and receive messages and to
transmit beacons in APRS. Enter the call sign like "JA1ZRL-7". The "-7" in the call sign
indicates the SSID (Secondary Station Identifier) of which there are 16 types, including
one with no SSID. Generally, the SSIDs shown in the table below are used in APRS.
SSID
NIL Fixed stations that can exchange
messages
-1 1200 bps narrow-to-middle band
digipeater
-2 9600 bps digipeater
-3 1200 bps broadband digipeater
-4 Digipeater, mobile station, meteorological
station, etc.
-5 Operation station using mobile devices
(smartphones etc.)
-6 Operation station for satellite
communications, events, etc.
-7 Use of FT2D etc. in handy terminals
1
Press the
The Set Mode Menu will appear.
2
Touch [APRS]
3
Turn the DIAL to select [23 CALLSIGN (APRS)] and
touch it on the display
The text input screen will be displayed.
Description
key for one second or longer
SSID
-8 Marine mobile stations, land mobile
stations
-9 Using the FTM-400 etc. for mobile
applications
-10 I-Gate station, Internet connection station
-11 Balloons, aircraft, spacecraft, etc.
-12 1-way tracker station (messages cannot
be exchanged)
-13 Meteorological station (weather station)
-14 Tracking mobile stations
-15 Digipeater, mobile station, meteorological
station, etc.
8
Description