KG4WSV kg4...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:10 AM, James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote:
Xastir does not decode waypoint ($GPWPL) strings. None of the APRS
programs have this capability.
This would be a neat feature, though. split the Kenwood D7/700 GPS
RS232, so that the GPS TX goes
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Curt, WE7Uarc...@eskimo.com wrote:
We don't have any way to use Google Maps at this time. As for
online maps we have the Terraserver maps, topo/aerial/urban-aerial,
Tigermaps, and can use many WMS servers for maps.
You can also use OpenStreetMap as a map
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Curt, WE7Uarc...@eskimo.com wrote:
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, ml41782 wrote:
Would it not be more prudent as well as the simplest thing.
Just be to move off of 144.390 to another data frequency. for a
special event or a SAR operation. Especially if you are running a
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Rob Neece k...@cox.net wrote:
After reading the recent Linux Journal article, I decided it was time to
check out APRS. Xastir was available in the MEPIS repositories, so Synaptic
was used to install it. Getting it up and running was pretty easy, but the
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Rob Neece k...@cox.net wrote:
Ian Bennett wrote:
Rob,
I disagree.to a point. Doing what you describe would add to
immense overhead to the program for little gain.
Ian, I think you confused me with James. I don't know enough about xastir
to have
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Ian Bennett ibenn...@tpg.com.au wrote:
I disagree.to a point. Doing what you describe would add to immense
overhead to the program for little gain.
That really is all dependent upon your definition of gain. If you take
a program that maybe 10% of
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Lee Bengston lee.bengs...@gmail.com wrote:
I spend a lot of time delving into the deep dark recesses of APRS.
Doesn't that suggest a tinfoil hat and propeller beanie of your own?
(only kidding, of course)
Hey, my tinfoil hat has a propeller!
And I know I
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Chip G. n1...@mac.com wrote:
One asked how much power I was running because he could hear
me in the maritimes of Canada. The second asked if I was running
1500 watts or more.
Any evidence as to how they are hearing you?
The second sent me this path as
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
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Norman Heyen n.he...@comcast.net wrote:
When I look at the raw packets in APRS.FI (or any other site) all I ever see
are the twice per hour beacons. When I look in the station info page, there
isn't a section for Stations which heard KC9NVN directly on radio.
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Norman Heyen n.he...@comcast.net wrote:
I think I see what you are saying but I still don't see why there aren't
more raw packets for my station.
That would be because you are only sending position reports once every
30 minutes. No one out there is going to
And the best part is you can add detail or correct errors on OSM.
While Smokey the Bear says Only YOU can prevent forest fires!, the
OSM motto is Even YOU can make a map!
James
VE6SRV
On 6/7/10, KA7O k...@ka7o.net wrote:
On 06/07/2010 06:22 PM, Andrew Errington wrote:
We should seriously
Remember that there is an OSM tile server (or more aptly) multiple
tile servers out there, but the OSM data can also be had in shapefile
format.
As for the excuse that OSM data is wrong, that doesn't hold water as
the tiger data was happily consumed even though it too was wrong. As a
matter of
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Jerry Dunmire je...@dunmire.org wrote:
The OSM code is really just a (simple) modification of the tigermaps
code. The slow speed seems to be all related to pulling images from
the server. It doesn't appear to me like the images in the cache get
re-used if the
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote:
If it is missing some tiles or they've otherwised
tweaked the server software to not produce a certain area, we won't
see that in our images on Xastir.
The server won't be tweaked to not produce a tile for a certain area.
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 3:17 AM, Thomas Sprinzing tho...@sprinzing.org wrote:
It is just the matter for some knowledgable people to write a decent dbfawk
file and put it to work.
You guys should have a look at the map rendering rules that we have in
the editing software. Dbfawk is garbage
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Thomas Sprinzing tho...@sprinzing.org wrote:
I've had a look at the meerkator webpage. Frankly, i don't need another map
editing piece of software on my computer.
You don't need Merkaartor on your computer... I was using Merkaartor
as an example, or rather a
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:59 AM, Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Here I saw problems with the Canadian border -and- the west border
of Whatcom county, plus a typo: Insterstate 90 at Snoqualmie
Pass. I'm sure I'll find more as I play. If someone who's familiar
with OSM knows the
The APRS-IS will not rate limit you on unique packets. The high rate
data you are talking about won't have a significant impact on the
APRS-IS, no where near as much as the impact will be on your local RF
network.
If you are on 144.390, you'll be more of a problem for those on RF
than the APRS-IS
Go to aprs.fi if you want to see the real packet. Hessu posts the APRS
payload including non-printables, and if you really want to see what's
in there, you can look at the packet in HEX.
James
VE6SRV
On 8/3/10, Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, ml41782 wrote:
Thank
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Jerry Dunmire je...@dunmire.org wrote:
Finally, since the missing areas are marked as red blocks, I can tell
that you are using an older version of Xastir. The newer version uses
transparent areas for the missing blocks.
On APRSISCE/32 Lynn displays the tiles
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Kai Gunter Brandt
kai.bra...@cih.uib.no wrote:
use password on the zipfile and use a public know password and it should
do fine i think.
I just rename the .zip file to .zap and gmail doesn't snoop inside it
for the verboten files.
Adding a password should
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Kurt Savegnago ksav...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
When in PACKET mode, I don't think there is a way to extract the
GPS information into the computer. I said, I don't think. :-)
I could be wrong. ;-) If I am, show me the way
I'm currently connected to
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Javier Henderson wrote:
Which is why we need redundancy. Particularly for something like this
where lives or property are potentially at stake.
Where do I read more about this? I have a number of
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:08 AM, Kai Gunter Brandt
kai.bra...@cih.uib.no wrote:
If you turn off the TNC and APRS mode you are receiving the GPS data.
Are you saying that you have GPS data appearing on the com port when
the TNC is turned off? What settings are you using to see that? I'm
not
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Harry Bloomberg hblo...@gmail.com wrote:
Since the TH-D72 has it's own internal GPS receiver, does this still make
sense? Why should an external GPS be required if there's one built into the
TH-D72 and you want to run the TH-D72 in packet mode?
The issue is
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Kurt Savegnago ksav...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
If the GPS only does Garminspeak, they'll be out of luck. KC9LDH
It would be strange for the D72's internal GPS to do Garminspeak as
it is a SiRF III GPS.
James
VE6SRV
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On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:46 AM, A.Oskarsson tf...@simnet.is wrote:
Yes, I do admit that I'm a newbie both to Ubuntu and Xastir. But as I plan
to setup an Igate, I would like to
ask for some help and advise.
I've already installed Ubuntu 10.10 and Xastir V2.0.1
No TNC has been connected
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Jarett DeAngelis
jdeange...@alumni.nd.edu wrote:
All right then, still more confusion!
I thought TNCs operated in three modes:
KISS, which is barebones and allows application software to manage how the
TNC interprets bits,
Serial, which makes certain
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Tom Russo ru...@bogodyn.org wrote:
It also works with the D700 so long as you have a GPSTEXT command in the
startup file to tell the TNC to send periodic NMEA sentences of that type.
I don't know that the radio is caring about the control-E in
this case --- it
Linked In is a spam trap... just ignore it.
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Andrew Errington
a.erring...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote:
On Wed, October 12, 2011 04:25, Tim Billingsley wrote:
I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.
- Tim
What? *All* of us?
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:14 PM, John Wilson kc4...@gmail.com wrote:
I've noticed that some of the data coming through my station doesn't appear
to be gating the proper information.
Not sure is the PK-232 has the command or not, but...
Check your PASSALL status. You want it off, otherwise
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Guy Story KC5GOI kc5...@gmail.com wrote:
I never said in 15 years of personal APRS activity including setting up
digipeaters and operating the second igate (aprsD) in the Dallas/Ft Worth
area for better than 12 years that 9600 baud was a bad idea. All I said
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Scott Evans
sc...@vk7hse.hobby-site.org wrote:
I also forwarded this to Byon as a direct email as I know he's not on this
list (re the issue with digipeating and TT4 firmware)
I'm in contact with Byon, I sent him an overview of what I observed
and packets to
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Geoff Gatward geoff-li...@gatwards.org wrote:
I maintain the Australian WXSVR-AU server, which is the equivelent down
under of the WXSVR in the US that injects NWS alerts into the APRS-IS.
Hi Geoff,
I looked into trying to get a Canadian WX server running
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Alex Carver kf4...@yahoo.com wrote:
NOAA-NWS uses a variety of XML feeds for their different products.
Yup, got that figured out.
Forecasts, weather warnings, and other data come in via different links that
would have to be merged as needed.
Do we know
Here's my thought process...
There should be somewhere that one could find a feed that has
information contained within that has an alert type such as:
BZW Blizzard Warning
DSW Dust Storm Warning
FSW Flash Freeze Warning
Which are all listed here:
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