So ive been trying to get my APRS setup working for the past couple weeks and im just going in circles at this point. Running a TM-D710G with the internal TNC and ive got my callsign and SSID set correctly (pretty sure anyway), path is WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1, and the beacon interval is set to 2 minutes. I can hear other stations beaconing on 144.390 no problem so the radio is clearly receiving but when I check aprs.fi my station just isnt there.

Tried keying up on the frequency manually and that shows fine, so the radio is definitely transmitting. Makes me think the packet itself is malformed somehow or the TNC isnt encoding it right. Anyone run into this before with the D710? Im starting to wonder if theres some setting buried in the menus im missing. The manual for this thing is like 200 pages and not exactly clear on the APRS specific stuff.

First thing id check is whether the TNC is actually set to APRS mode and not just generic packet. On the D710 you gotta make sure youre in the APRS mode not just TNC mode — they behave differently. Also double check your symbol table and symbol character because I've seen a situation where a weird symbol config causes the packet to get rejected by some igates even though it technically transmits fine.

Also worth grabbing a second receiver and decoding the packets yourself with something like APRSIS32 or even just Direwolf running on a laptop nearby. That way you can see exactly what youre putting out on the air and check if the string looks right before blaming the igate infrastructure. 90% of the time when I hear this complaint its something dumb in the config that jumps right out when you actually decode your own packet.

yeah the path might actually be your problem depending on where you are. if youre in a rural area with not many digipeaters WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1 should be fine but ive seen some areas where the local digi has quirks. also aprs.fi can sometimes lag by like 15-20 minutes so maybe just wait it out and see if it shows up. what SSID are you using? if you left it as -0 or something that can sometimes look weird on the map but it shouldnt stop it from appearing entirely