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Background: I am running APRSdigi on my RedHat 6.1 box, with a MFJ-1278
hanging on ttyS0. I am using the modified AXtools from Alan Crosswell,
N2YGK. Everything is working well (aprsmon allows TCP/IP connections,
beacons are sent, etc.).
Problem 1: Occasionally, for no apparent reason, my TNC drops out of
KISS mode. I can figure no rhyme or reason for it, but it just poops
out. This is pretty unsolvable in this forum, but I just wanted to
point out that the 1278 is somewhat unreliable in KISS mode and wondered
if anyone sees this happen in more "conventional" (i.e. ROSE or TCP)
applications.
Problem 2: The beacon command I use looks like this:
beacon -d APRS -t 15 ax0 '<my beacon string>'
Unfortunately, with APRS being a UI-only protocol, my beacons don't get
propagated through the APRS system. I need to be able to do something
like this:
beacon -d "APRS via WIDE,WIDE,WIDE" ...
Is there an axparm that I'm missing in the documentation that will allow
me to do this? Thanks.
John Gorkos
KB5HHR
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