Re: [Xastir] Unbuntu 10 and ax25

2010-05-23 Thread VA7OTC JD Erskine
On 22/May/10 13:47, ml41782 wrote: I have to say linux Mint has been alot more stable than Ubuntu. More thought seems to go into it. I'm not knocking Ubuntu it was one of the first stable versions I worked with. However Mint is my preferred OS for the past year. Interesting observation. I

Re: [Xastir] Xastir Digest, Vol 54, Issue 27

2010-05-23 Thread Guy Story KC5GOI
I got my maps working yesterday evening. There was not much of a learning curve for me on this one since WinAPRS uses the same format with the exception of the image size field and that was easy. I am currently having tie point accuracy issues but I can get that taken care of. My maps are not

Re: [Xastir] Xastir Digest, Vol 54, Issue 27

2010-05-23 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Sun, 23 May 2010, Guy Story KC5GOI wrote: I got my maps working yesterday evening. There was not much of a learning curve for me on this one since WinAPRS uses the same format with the exception of the image size field and that was easy. I am currently having tie point accuracy issues but

Re: [Xastir] Using TT4 as digi/igate questions

2010-05-23 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Sun, 23 May 2010, Norman Heyen wrote: I confirmed Xastir was set per your recommendations. But I don't see anything in the APRS raw packets except the twice per hour beacons on igate. Maybe that is all I should expect but it sure seems to me that I should see some of the traffic in raw

Re: [Xastir] Using TT4 as digi/igate questions

2010-05-23 Thread James Ewen
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote: If you look at this link:    http://aprs.fi/info/KC9NVN It says that you heard 14 stations directly and lists them.  It also lists you as an igate... Or look at this link and see where you've heard people: Stations

Re: [Xastir] Using TT4 as digi/igate questions

2010-05-23 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Sun, 23 May 2010, Norman Heyen wrote: Maybe that is all I should expect but it sure seems to me that I should see some of the traffic in raw packets that I see in the incoming data monitor window in Xastir. I'm looking at it with the TNC only box checked. I see quite a bit of traffic in that

Re: [Xastir] Using TT4 as digi/igate questions

2010-05-23 Thread Norman Heyen
Thank you Kurt (and the rest) for your comments. Like I said, this could be working and I don't know enough to realize that... Wouldn't be the first time I've gotten in over my head and not know what the end result should be. :-) If you folks think the station is working as it should, then I'll

Re: [Xastir] Xastir Digest, Vol 54, Issue 28

2010-05-23 Thread Guy Story KC5GOI
Curt, I tried it with the online maps this evening and had the same issue. If the error was within 50 meters I would not sweat it but it is off by a mile in some cases. I still think I am not getting the tie points close enough. Based on what I learned on WinAPRS if you take the tie points and