[Xastir] Xastir Newbie having receive problems

2009-11-29 Thread J Hunter
After installing Xastir and getting it configured I am running into a bit of a problem on the receive end. I have a TinyTrak4 connected through the serial port and when I hit the Transmit Now button I can see my radio transmit and I hear it over a second radio. When I look on GoogleMaps

Re: [Xastir] Xastir Newbie having receive problems

2009-11-29 Thread J Hunter
I figured out the problem. Just for the sake of passing this along in case some other newbie runs into the same problem. In the station set up section I told the software that my radio set up is a bit better than what it really is. before I told it that my antenna was at 20' at 4 watts, I

Re: [Xastir] Xastir Newbie having receive problems

2009-11-29 Thread Tom Russo
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 01:28:33PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the jhun...@sardognetwork.org flavor, containing: I figured out the problem. Just for the sake of passing this along in case some other newbie runs into the same problem. In the station set up section I

Re: [Xastir] Xastir Newbie having receive problems

2009-11-29 Thread Rick Green
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009, J Hunter wrote: After installing Xastir and getting it configured I am running into a bit of a problem on the receive end. I have a TinyTrak4 connected through the serial port and when I hit the Transmit Now button I can see my radio transmit and I hear it over a second

[Xastir] On to the next question

2009-11-29 Thread J Hunter
First of all, thanks for the replies on my first post. Even though I thought I figured out how to fix it I guess what I did had no effect. Regardless, it is working now and for that I am thankful. Now the next question. I intend to use Xastir primarily in the field which will have no

Re: [Xastir] On to the next question

2009-11-29 Thread Alex Carver
There's no automated method for obtaining the maps for local use unless a script has shown up in one of the latest releases (I'm about two releases behind right now). It's just a manual process if there's no script handy. You just go out and get the proper TIGER/Line shapefiles for the