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APRS position not updating on aprs.fi — igate seeing me but map stuck

so this has been driving me nuts for about a week now. my position beacon is going out, i can see it hitting the local igate (W5XYZ-10 shows me in its heard list) but aprs.fi just shows me sitting at my home QTH from like 3 days ago even when im mobile. tried clearing browser cache and all that.

running a TM-D710G into a Byonics TinyTrak4 — wait no actually the 710 has its own built in TNC so i bypassed the TinyTrak a while back. SSID is set to -9 for mobile. symbol is car. path is WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1 which should be fine for my area. smartbeaconing is on and set to corner pegging at like 5mph minimum.

the weird thing is if i pull up findU it shows the recent packets just fine with correct coordinates. so the data is getting to the APRS-IS network... aprs.fi is just not updating for some reason? or am i missing something obvious here. been on HF a lot lately and feel like maybe i forgot how this is supposed to work lol

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aprs.fi has had some caching weirdness off and on, but more likely you might have two objects or stations with your callsign-SSID floating around confusing it. check if maybe the TinyTrak was ever configured with the same SSID and sent out a position with a different symbol or path — sometimes the site latches onto the older one and just kinda ignores updates that look like duplicates or come from a different path signature.

also worth checking your comment field. ive seen cases where a stray character in the status text caused the packet to parse weird on aprs.fi specifically even though findU handled it fine. the parsers are a bit different under the hood. try stripping your comment field down to nothing and send a few beacons and see if it unsticks.

might be a dumb question but did you check if aprs.fi is filtering by last 2 hours vs all time? theres a dropdown on the station page that i always forget about. caught me off guard once when i couldnt find myself after a road trip and it turned out i was just outside the default time window they show

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