[Xastir] [Fwd: [APRS] Good, better, best non-attended APRS repeater/Igate equipment sets]

2009-03-26 Thread Jim Tolbert
the Good, Better, & Best complete configurations for equipment to set up an APRS digipeater and IGATE. I would be able to check on the equipment a few times per week. Many thanx. jt Jim Tolbert, KC9MXT -- Jim Tolbert PO Box 536 Webster, WI 54893 __._,_.___ Messages in

[Xastir] Can I use MrSID files in Xastir?

2009-04-01 Thread Jim Tolbert
. Is anyone familiar with this type of aerial photos? Can we used them with Xastir? What can I tell the Mapping Technician to try? What can I do? Many thanx jt Jim Tolbert, KC9MXT Webster, WI ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir

[Xastir] Saving serial snapshots

2009-04-12 Thread Jim Tolbert
I think I remember someone describing a method of saving serial png snapshots. I have searched all the saved posting that I have, but have not come up with it. Could someone repost or redirect me to it? Second question how do I use/deal with kml files. Trying to open them opens Firefox

Re: [Xastir] Saving serial snapshots

2009-04-15 Thread Jim Tolbert
Thanks, Curt Curt, WE7U wrote: On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Jim Tolbert wrote: I think I remember someone describing a method of saving serial png snapshots. I have searched all the saved posting that I have, but have not come up with it. Could someone repost or redirect me to it? If

Re: [Xastir] Saving serial snapshots

2009-04-15 Thread Jim Tolbert
Curt, WE7U wrote: On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Jim Tolbert wrote: On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Jim Tolbert wrote: I think I remember someone describing a method of saving serial png snapshots. I have searched all the saved posting that I have, but have not come up with it. Could someone repost or

Re: [Xastir] Saving serial snapshots

2009-04-15 Thread Jim Tolbert
Curt, WE7U wrote: On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Jim Tolbert wrote: What I (think I) want is to be able to replay a search at high speed (2 sec = 5 minutes or something like that). I currently have 4 GPS trackers for SAR and want to eventually have about 20. I think I want a slide show. Then I

Re: [Xastir] Saving serial snapshots

2009-04-15 Thread Jim Tolbert
Stay tuned I am off to try it. Curt, WE7U wrote: On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Jim Tolbert wrote: I think I want a slide show. Does the snapshot feature in your installed version of Xastir (that you'll be using for the exercise) work perfectly now? This would be a good time to test it.

Re: [Xastir] Saving serial snapshots

2009-04-15 Thread Jim Tolbert
8.04. (There is something funky that I haven't figured out yet with the hardware on the laptop running the openSUSE) James Ewen wrote: On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Jim Tolbert wrote: Stay tuned I am off to try it. I'm thinking you guys are all going overboard.

Re: [Xastir] Saving serial snapshots

2009-04-15 Thread Jim Tolbert
perl -v (on the xubuntu system) returns: This is perl V5.8.8 built for i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi Does that tell you what you are asking? Curt, WE7U wrote: On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Jim Tolbert wrote: Do you have Perl available on your Xastir box you'll be using for the exercise? I don&#

Re: [Xastir] Saving serial snapshots

2009-04-15 Thread Jim Tolbert
15, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Jim Tolbert wrote: Stay tuned I am off to try it. I'm thinking you guys are all going overboard. It sounds like all Jim needs to do, is to have Xastir save a snapshot every 5 minutes, and then have a cron job set up that copies the latest image to a storag

Re: [Xastir] Saving serial snapshots

2009-04-15 Thread Jim Tolbert
I think were are sevearl slideshow programs on the Window side that could be used to display them once you have a set of images Jason KG4WSV wrote: On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Jim Tolbert wrote: Basicially, just one screen shot after the next, but displayed at a rate you can watch

Re: [Xastir] Saving serial snapshots

2009-04-15 Thread Jim Tolbert
I seem to have four "snapshot" files .png, xpm, kml, geo. Do I want to change the snapshot.jpg to snapshot.png in the code from Carl? An then ( just to show how ignorant I am), what do I do with this code? ... No, I am not kidding. Do I type it in the terminal with the "sudo chmod 66

Re: [Xastir] Saving serial snapshots

2009-04-16 Thread Jim Tolbert
Hi, Curt Thank you very much for your help! I am just getting a slightly modified version of Carl's working am happily generating snapshots. When I run Carl's' script, I get kill: 10: Illegal Option -S But it seems to work. I think I will wait until this weekend demo is over and then

[Xastir] Off Topic: Method to deterrmine location of N minimum points from a dataset

2010-01-18 Thread Jim Tolbert
Sorry for the off topic, but I am not sure where to start and I figured some of you folks probably know.. Any suggestions on what I should search on? I want a method to calculate the locations of N points from a dataset of locations that has a minimum cumulative distance. That, what are the

Re: [Xastir] Off Topic: Method to deterrmine location of N minimum points from a dataset

2010-01-18 Thread Jim Tolbert
right way. --- On Mon, 1/18/10, Jim Tolbert wrote: From: Jim Tolbert Subject: [Xastir] Off Topic: Method to deterrmine location of N minimum points from a dataset To: "XASTIR" Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 8:05 PM Sorry for the off topic, but I am not sure where to start and I

[Xastir] Is the weather radar up?

2010-10-25 Thread Jim Tolbert
Hi, all 1354 CST on 10-25-2010. Is the weather radar up? It seemed to be working for me yesterday, but nothing is showing anywhere in the USA right now. If it is up, and if it is operator error ( the most likely explanation), any ideas where to start to fix it. I am running