Re: [Xastir] Gating WX from IP to RF - THE SOLUTION

2007-12-05 Thread Gerry Creager
Take a look at wview for *nix. Works well with the VP series of stations. gerry Mike Long (N3QD) wrote: Fred, I have a little bit of a unique situation. My WX Station is a Davis Vantage Pro. The only way to get the VP to work with XASTIR on Linux is software called Meteo. Now, I'm

Re: [Xastir] Gating WX from IP to RF

2007-12-04 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Mike Long (N3QD) wrote: The log file shows a lot of gating to the Net, but nothing to RF. Don't necessarily trust the log. There's no guarantee that we log everything, or log it in the manner or to the log file you expect. Trust the RF. Put another handheld on that

Re: [Xastir] Gating WX from IP to RF

2007-12-04 Thread Mike Long (N3QD)
Well I figured it out. Apparently XASTIR doesn't gate INET to RF if the station call is the same as that being received from the INET. I guess that makes sense, but it makes what I'm trying to do more difficult. I figured this out by changing my station call to TEST, and now XASTIR is

Re: [Xastir] Gating WX from IP to RF - THE SOLUTION

2007-12-04 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Mike Long (N3QD) wrote: Hmm, see what you're saying. I didn't think about dupes on the net. Okay, station call is now N3QDIGATE to avoid dupes. BTW, that just fits in the callsign block, gotta love the 1X2 / 2X1 calls! :o) Unfortunately that won't work on RF. It has to

Re: [Xastir] Gating WX from IP to RF - THE SOLUTION

2007-12-04 Thread Mike Long (N3QD)
Fred, I have a little bit of a unique situation. My WX Station is a Davis Vantage Pro. The only way to get the VP to work with XASTIR on Linux is software called Meteo. Now, I'm not a Linux genius, or a complete newbie either, but Meteo uses MySql and is very difficult to set up.

Re: [Xastir] Gating WX from IP to RF

2007-12-04 Thread ke5c
Is there a way I can Gate my WX data from IP to RF? When would this be helpful? I'm admittedly new at this, but I thought the idea was to use RF to get to an IGate, not the other way around? Are you on a local frequency and not 144.39? Thanks! 73, John