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Mic-E message:	In service
Location:	26°29.25' S 28°02.25' E - locator KG43AM43MA - show map 17.0 km East bearing 92° from Orange Farm, Gauteng, South Africa [?] 23.4 km Northeast bearing 28° from Vereeniging, Gauteng, South Africa 30.2 km Southeast bearing 144° from Soweto, Gauteng, South Africa 31.7 km South bearing 181° from Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Last position:	2025-05-11 21:25:47 UTC (4d 7h11m ago) 2025-05-11 23:25:47 SAST local time at Orange Farm, South Africa [?]
Altitude:	1557 m
Position ambiguous:	Precision reduced at transmitter by 4 digits, position resolution approximately 111.1 km.
Course:	0°
Speed:	0 km/h
Device:	Kenwood: TM-D700 (rig)
Last path:	ZS6KBS-2>R6ZLLL via ZS0DCC-4*,WIDE2-1,WIDE2-2,qAO,ZS4SRK-15 This station is transmitting packets with a configured path of over 3 digipeaters. This causes serious congestion in the APRS network and errors when plotting the station's route on a map. Please consider using a path of WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1 or WIDE2-2, or even WIDE1-1,WIDE2-2 if you are moving very far away from an iGATE.
Positions stored:	2
Other SSIDs:	ZS6KBS-7 ZS6KBS-9 ZS6KBS-15

callsign		pkts	first heard - UTC	last heard	longest	(tx => rx)	longest at - UTC

Only position packets which were originated by the station are shown here. The range statistics show some extra long hops, because some digipeaters do not correctly add themselves to the digipeater path. Please check the raw packets.

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