diff --git a/rootfs/etc/services.d/mlat-client/run b/rootfs/etc/services.d/mlat-client/run
index d5ffaaa..fcdb56d 100644
--- a/rootfs/etc/services.d/mlat-client/run
+++ b/rootfs/etc/services.d/mlat-client/run
@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ fi
 # Strip any extraneous spaces:
 MLAT_CONFIG="${MLAT_CONFIG#"${MLAT_CONFIG%%[![:space:]]*}"}"   # strip leading space
 MLAT_CONFIG="${MLAT_CONFIG//; /;}"
+# remove any newlines:
+MLAT_CONFIG="${MLAT_CONFIG//$'\n'/}"
 readarray -td ";" mlat_configs < <(printf '%s' "${MLAT_CONFIG}")
 
 
diff --git a/rootfs/etc/services.d/mlathub/run b/rootfs/etc/services.d/mlathub/run
index 6dab8ee..828edea 100644
--- a/rootfs/etc/services.d/mlathub/run
+++ b/rootfs/etc/services.d/mlathub/run
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ MLATHUB_CMD+=("--net-beast-reduce-out-port=${MLATHUB_BEAST_REDUCE_OUT_PORT:-3100
 
 # We need to get the mlat results ports from the parameters:
 # parse MLAT_CONFIG string into mlat_configs array
+# Strip any extraneous spaces:
+MLAT_CONFIG="${MLAT_CONFIG#"${MLAT_CONFIG%%[![:space:]]*}"}"   # strip leading space
+MLAT_CONFIG="${MLAT_CONFIG//; /;}"
+# remove any newlines:
+MLAT_CONFIG="${MLAT_CONFIG//$'\n'/}"
 readarray -td ";" mlat_configs < <(printf '%s' "${MLAT_CONFIG// /}")
 # Now loop through the MLAT_CONFIG items and add a net-connector for each of them:
 mlat_result_sources=0
diff --git a/rootfs/scripts/interpret_ultrafeeder_config b/rootfs/scripts/interpret_ultrafeeder_config
index f2026c6..e52c09f 100755
--- a/rootfs/scripts/interpret_ultrafeeder_config
+++ b/rootfs/scripts/interpret_ultrafeeder_config
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@
 # Do some prep work:
 # combine ULTRAFEEDER_CONFIG and ULTRAFEEDER_NET_CONNECTOR
 ULTRAFEEDER_CONFIG="${ULTRAFEEDER_CONFIG}${ULTRAFEEDER_CONFIG:+;}${ULTRAFEEDER_NET_CONNECTOR}"
+# remove any newlines:
+ULTRAFEEDER_CONFIG="${ULTRAFEEDER_CONFIG//$'\n'/}"
 # Strip any extraneous spaces:
 ULTRAFEEDER_CONFIG="${ULTRAFEEDER_CONFIG#"${ULTRAFEEDER_CONFIG%%[![:space:]]*}"}"   # strip leading space
 ULTRAFEEDER_CONFIG="${ULTRAFEEDER_CONFIG//; /;}"
@@ -120,8 +122,25 @@ do
         ;;
 
         *)
-            # unknown string; warn and skip
-            echo "[$(date)][${APPNAME}] Warning: skipping unknown ULTRAFEEDER_CONFIG config element \"${instance}\""
+            # Check if there's anything in ${ULTRAFEEDER_NET_CONNECTOR} -- if not, it's a bad config element. If yes, add it as if it were ADSB
+            if [[ -z "${ULTRAFEEDER_NET_CONNECTOR}" ]]; then
+                echo "[$(date)][${APPNAME}] Warning: skipping unknown ULTRAFEEDER_CONFIG config element \"${instance}\""
+            else
+                # parse arguments for main readsb
+                # build net-connector string into $readsb_str
+                # and add any extra arguments in as individual entries into READSB_CONF_ARR()
+                readsb_str="${param[0]},${param[1]},${param[2]}"
+                for ((i=3; i<${#param[*]}; i++))
+                do
+                    if [[ "${param[i]:0:5}" == "uuid=" ]]; then
+                        readsb_str="${readsb_str},${param[i]}"
+                    elif [[ -n "${param[i]}" ]]; then
+                        READSB_CONF_ARR+=("${param[i]}")
+                    fi
+                done
+                # Now add $readsb_str to the READSB_CONF_ARR() as --net-connector argument:
+                READSB_CONF_ARR+=("--net-connector=${readsb_str}")
+            fi
     esac
 
 done