[Xastir] Differences between aprs.fi and xastir?

2017-07-25 Thread Tom Henderson
that work vs the ones that don't and was wondering if anyone had any advice. If I fetch a findu trail, the station is found, but ages out. Example of call sign that works on both: WB4QEV-4 Example of call sign that only shows on aprs.fi: CW2227 -- Tom Henderson

Re: [Xastir] Differences between aprs.fi and xastir?

2017-07-25 Thread Tom Henderson
Can I set up Xastir to receive CWOP traffic. It appears to connect to cwop.aprs.net, but nothing comes over the interface. Tom Henderson On 07/25/2017 08:51 AM, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote: CW2227 is a CWOP weather station that does not appear on APRS-IS nor firenet. CWOP data is carried

[Xastir] Live radar images?

2017-11-09 Thread Tom Henderson
I see several references to being able to add weather radar to the xastir map, but nothing recent and nothing that works in the version 2.0.9 that I'm running. Am I missing something, or is that option no longer available? Tom Henderson ___ Xastir

Re: [Xastir] compiling and installing xastir using git on a Raspberri pi

2018-05-24 Thread Tom Henderson
warranty of any kind. Tom Henderson On 05/24/2018 02:17 AM, Menga wrote: Dear friends, I'm reinstalling xastir on a fresh 2018-04-18-raspbian-stretch on my new RPI 3 B+ using git. In the past adventurousy I was able to compile the program starting from the source files. This time I want to go

Re: [Xastir] Fwd: [ge0rg/aprsdroid] New offline map link (#211)

2018-06-12 Thread Tom Henderson
Which of the available download formats are compatble with Xastir? I tried "MapsForge OSM" and got a .map file, but xastir didn't render it when I added it to the maps directory. Tom Henderson On 06/12/2018 10:43 AM, David Ranch wrote: Hello Everyone, Thought I'd also pass on a

Re: [Xastir] Firenet data

2018-06-15 Thread Tom Henderson
I think that explains everything I'm seeing. Screen shots attached with a couple examples. Thanks! Tom Henderson On 06/14/2018 02:36 PM, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote: Post a few screen shots or station IDs (although they can be very transitory) and we'll see what we can describe. KJ4ERJ

[Xastir] Firenet data

2018-06-14 Thread Tom Henderson
there somewhere that explains what they are? -- Tom Henderson ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir

Re: [Xastir] compiling and installing xastir using git on a Raspberri pi

2018-05-26 Thread Tom Henderson
Thanks! I have no idea why it pasted that way! Tom Henderson On 05/26/2018 03:14 AM, Liz wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2018 12:10:21 -0500 Tom Henderson <t...@henderson4.us> wrote: Retrieve the updated script with wgethttp://www.175moonlight.com/xastir/raspbian-xastir-git-build.sh That

[Xastir] Alternate way to set display options?

2018-06-02 Thread Tom Henderson
. For anyone who may encounter the same problem, the file is ~/.xastir/config/xastir.cnf and you need to change "DISPLAY_LAST_HEARD:0" to "DISPLAY_LAST_HEARD:1" Close xastir before modifying the file, then start xastir again. -- Tom Henderson

Re: [Xastir] Xastir not digipeating, can't figure out why.

2018-01-18 Thread Tom Henderson
o not show in the log. Are you sure you're not already digipeating, but just don't think you are becuase you don't see it in the log? Tom Henderson On 01/17/2018 07:24 PM, Aaron Vogel wrote: Hey there, I've gotten really far and just have 1 hurdle left to my goal of creating a fill-in digipeater

Re: [Xastir] Xastir not digipeating, can't figure out why.

2018-01-18 Thread Tom Henderson
t;see." Tom Henderson On 01/18/2018 11:48 AM, Aaron Vogel wrote: Tom, If you take a look at the screen grab linked in my first email you'll see "Digipeat?" is in fact checked. The TNC doesn't really do any digipeating like others do, it's just a serial comm device. The 30-min-

Re: [Xastir] New Xastir build

2018-02-15 Thread Tom Henderson
Thanks for this. Quite simple, and most importantly, it worked. :-) Tom Henderson On 02/14/2018 08:00 PM, David A Aitcheson wrote: Hi Joe, The short simple answer is: Open a terminal window and cd to your xastir directory in your src or source directory. Confirm that "update-x

Re: [Xastir] Autostart Xastir

2018-02-20 Thread Tom Henderson
Correction: based on time *or system startup.* Which is why it might be a good fit here. As Curt pointed out, the @reboot keyword can be used. Tom Henderson On 02/19/2018 05:38 PM, Michael Barnes wrote: crontab runs scripts based on time, not events

Re: [Xastir] New Xastir build

2018-02-15 Thread Tom Henderson
I'm the good looking one. :-) KM4UQB Tom Henderson On 02/15/2018 09:45 AM, David A Aitcheson wrote: You're welcome Tom. I am curious as to which "Tom Henderson" you are on QRZ.com? 73 Dave KB3EFS On 02/15/2018 07:52 AM, Tom Henderson wrote: Thanks for this. Quite simple

Re: [Xastir] Added to Git: U.S. Tiger WMS Maps

2018-08-25 Thread Tom Henderson
Looks great! However, I can't get the borders to overlay any other map. The transparency doesn't seem to be working. Tom Henderson On 08/24/2018 09:45 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote: I added these files to Git this week:     USTigermap.geo     USTigermapBorders.geo Remember the Tigermap server we

Re: [Xastir] path question

2018-08-30 Thread Tom Henderson
ave? Tom Henderson On 08/30/2018 09:42 AM, Jason KG4WSV wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 7:36 AM Tom Henderson wrote: Is there a good explanation of paths and how they work in APRS someone could refer me to? I see bits and pieces out there, but nothing comprehensive tat explains it from the ground

Re: [Xastir] Can't get ImageMagick to work after upgrade to Ubunti 16.04

2018-04-22 Thread Tom Henderson
** ** **E: Package 'libtiff4-dev' has no installation candidate* Tom Henderson On 04/22/2018 07:42 PM, Tom Henderson wrote: Hello all, Hoping one of you have run into this snag and know how to fix it. Tried to reinstall xastir after upgrade using ubuntu-xastir-git-build.sh and got the output

Re: [Xastir] Can't get ImageMagick to work after upgrade to Ubunti 16.04

2018-04-23 Thread Tom Henderson
Love my Xaster. I was starting to have withdrawals! :-) Tom Henderson On 04/23/2018 09:34 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2018, Tom Henderson wrote: Found it. I had re-enabled a PPA that was for the previous release. as soon as I disabled that, everything started working. Excellent

Re: [Xastir] Position data from Xastir not accepted by Yaesu FTM-400 or Direwolf

2018-10-22 Thread Tom Henderson
1.3, but that wouldn't explain why it doesn't work with my FTM-400 either. Tom Henderson On 10/22/18 9:33 AM, David Ranch wrote: What version of Direwolf is this?  The final version of 1.5 was released about a month ago and it includes a lot of various fixes. --David KI6ZHD On 10/22/2018

[Xastir] Position data from Xastir not accepted by Yaesu FTM-400 or Direwolf

2018-10-22 Thread Tom Henderson
Unknown message type K, Xastir -- Tom Henderson ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir

Re: [Xastir] Position data from Xastir not accepted by Yaesu FTM-400 or Direwolf

2018-10-22 Thread Tom Henderson
OK, I updated to 1.5, but still get the same error. Tom Henderson On 10/22/18 9:33 AM, David Ranch wrote: What version of Direwolf is this?  The final version of 1.5 was released about a month ago and it includes a lot of various fixes. --David KI6ZHD On 10/22/2018 07:16 AM, Tom

Re: [Xastir] Position data from Xastir not accepted by Yaesu FTM-400 or Direwolf

2018-10-22 Thread Tom Henderson
I do have a feed from CWOP that I use with a filter for distance. If I don't send a position beacon, I don't get anything back because distance can't be calculated. Tom Henderson On 10/22/18 3:16 PM, Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate wrote: I'm also wondering why it seems to be going through

Re: [Xastir] Position data from Xastir not accepted by Yaesu FTM-400 or Direwolf

2018-10-22 Thread Tom Henderson
Thank you Brett! I have changed that and no longer transmit on that interface. Tom Henderson On 10/22/18 7:33 PM, Brett Friermood wrote: Rather than using the 'm/' filter for distance from your station, you can also use the 'r/' range filter from a specified point. Just use the location

Re: [Xastir] Position data from Xastir not accepted by Yaesu FTM-400 or Direwolf

2018-10-23 Thread Tom Henderson
On 10/23/18 7:29 AM, Jason KG4WSV wrote: -Jason On Oct 23, 2018, at 6:49 AM, David Brooke G6GZH wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 05:52:49AM -0500, Tom Henderson wrote: And with no comment at all: KW4TOM audio level = 44(22/9) [NONE] | [0.6] KW4TOM>APX211,WIDE2-2:KW4TOM>

Re: [Xastir] Position data from Xastir not accepted by Yaesu FTM-400 or Direwolf

2018-10-23 Thread Tom Henderson
Gulf Breeze Digi/iGate<0x0d> Unknown APRS Data Type Indicator "K", Xastir And with no comment at all: KW4TOM audio level = 44(22/9)   [NONE]   | [0.6] KW4TOM>APX211,WIDE2-2:KW4TOM>APX211,TCPIP*:=3023.43NT08705.80W<0x0d> Unknown APRS Data Type Indicator &qu

Re: [Xastir] Position data from Xastir not accepted by Yaesu FTM-400 or Direwolf

2018-10-24 Thread Tom Henderson
packet doesn't have the second TCPIP header in it. And my FT1XD reads the packet as valid and shows distance and PHG info. Tom Henderson On 10/23/18 7:38 PM, Tom Henderson wrote: Radio 1 is KW4TOM Radio 2 has no call sign. it is only receiving APRS packets that direwolf is decoding. Radio 3

Re: [Xastir] Position data from Xastir not accepted by Yaesu FTM-400 or Direwolf

2018-10-23 Thread Tom Henderson
OK, that explains what a third party packet is. What I still don't understated s why xastir is generating a third party packet as its beacon, and a malformed one at that. Is anyone else experiencing this from the beacons xastir transmits? Tom Henderson On 10/23/18 3:17 PM, Jason KG4WSV wrote

Re: [Xastir] Position data from Xastir not accepted by Yaesu FTM-400 or Direwolf

2018-10-23 Thread Tom Henderson
my mind that xastir is creating this bad packet. The question is, why? Tom Henderson On 10/23/18 4:05 PM, Jason KG4WSV wrote: Maybe I've missed something, but I don't know how your packet is getting from xastir to the receiver that's connected to direwolf. This is the packet that direwolf (a

Re: [Xastir] Position data from Xastir not accepted by Yaesu FTM-400 or Direwolf

2018-10-23 Thread Tom Henderson
Radio 1 is KW4TOM Radio 2 has no call sign. it is only receiving APRS packets that direwolf is decoding. Radio 3 is KW4TOM-7, but that has nothing to do witht he malformed packet it receives ffrom xastir as far as i can tell. Tom Henderson On 10/23/18 7:19 PM, Bill Vodall wrote: What

Re: [Xastir] Position data from Xastir not accepted by Yaesu FTM-400 or Direwolf

2018-11-13 Thread Tom Henderson
Thanks Tom, I have updated to the new version. Glad to know there was a reason for that strange behavior and that it has been fixed. Tom Henderson On 11/13/18 12:17 AM, Tom Russo wrote: I just looked at my station's raw packets at aprs.fi, and every single packet my home station has

Re: [Xastir] Send message function broken on Ubuntu Linux?

2018-11-14 Thread Tom Henderson
Even when things are working normally, cut/Paste don't work in xastir on Ubuntu using CTRL-X, CTRL-V, so I wouldn't expect them to work for Dave. Tom Henderson On 11/14/18 3:30 AM, Liz wrote: On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 16:23:19 -0500 David A Aitcheson wrote: Lynn, None of what you mention about

Re: [Xastir] Send message function broken on Ubuntu Linux?

2018-11-13 Thread Tom Henderson
I just updated xastir this morning and cannot duplicate the problem on Ubuntu 16.04. Just sent KB3EFS a test message successfully. Tom Henderson On 11/13/18 1:13 PM, David A Aitcheson wrote: On 11/13/18 1:46 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Tue, 13 Nov 2018, David A Aitcheson wrote: Warning

Re: [Xastir] Send message function broken on Ubuntu Linux?

2018-11-14 Thread Tom Henderson
Well I'll be darned! I had no idea that worked. Yes, I was able to pase into the message text box that way. However the CTRL-X, CRTL-C, and CTRL-V keys all work in the rest of my ubuntu applications. Tom Henderson On 11/14/18 10:11 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote: Select with the left button, paste

Re: [Xastir] Send message function broken on Ubuntu Linux?

2018-11-14 Thread Tom Henderson
No, it's not a recent thing. I just assumed it was a limitation of the particular "windowing" framework xastir uses. Certainly not a major issue for me. Especially now that you showed me how to use the center button to paste. Tom Henderson On 11/14/18 3:19 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:

Re: [Xastir] path question

2018-08-30 Thread Tom Henderson
Is there a good explanation of paths and how they work in APRS someone could refer me to? I see bits and pieces out there, but nothing comprehensive tat explains it from the ground up. Tom Henderson On 08/29/2018 08:54 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2018, MJ Inabnit wrote: I have

Re: [Xastir] Xastir wit Raspbeery Pi model # and pi-tnc

2019-01-21 Thread Tom Henderson
Hello! When you say you installed it on the RPi, does that include the steps to enable the serial port in the section of the manual on configuring the Rasperry Pi? https://tnc-x.com/TNCPi.pdf After that, the TNC should work on either /dev/serial0 or /dev/ttyAMA0 Tom Henderson On 1/21/19

Re: [Xastir] Online/nationalmap.gov map chooser options.

2018-11-19 Thread Tom Henderson
Brilliant! Thanks for describing this in a way that non-map savvy people like me can follow. Works here as well. Tom Henderson On 11/18/18 8:19 PM, Lee Bengston wrote: I noticed none of the options under "Online/nationalmap.gov" worked, so I decided to look around at the nationalmap

Re: [Xastir] Greek Language

2019-03-26 Thread Tom Henderson
Curt, thanks for your continued efforts on this. Those of you who devote development time to Xastir can't be thanked enough, in my opinion. Tom Henderson On 3/26/19 10:53 AM, Curt Mills wrote: Gang, I added Greek as an option to Xastir last fall. It caused a bit of heartburn as the degree

Re: [Xastir] Xastir Release 2.1.2

2019-06-04 Thread Tom Henderson
I ran update-xastir and it worked smoothly. However, when I open the "About Xastir" window, it says I am running 2.1.3. Tom Henderson On 6/2/19 9:03 PM, Curt Mills wrote: This release of Xastir implements the following changes: - National Weather Service shapefile script updat

Re: [Xastir] Turn-by-turn directions?

2019-06-14 Thread Tom Henderson
That would likely change xastir from a great APRS app into a really bad APRS app with really bad turn-by-turn capabilities. Tom Henderson On 6/14/19 11:36 AM, William McKeehan wrote: Is there any way to get directions in Xastir? Is such a feature on the list of desired things

Re: [Xastir] Vehicle Android Computer

2019-06-09 Thread Tom Henderson
I'm using APRSDroid with the FTM-400 to display the data received by the radio. The connection to the radio is made with a Yaesu serial cable and a bluetooth serial adapter. This provides output only from the radio, as Yaesu does not implement a full TNC. Tom Henderson On 6/8/19 7:50 PM

Re: [Xastir] Blank Bulletins window keeps popping up?

2019-06-22 Thread Tom Henderson
AM. Tom Henderson On 6/21/19 11:12 AM, Curt Mills wrote: I haven't personally seen that odd operation. Have you checked the incoming data to see if perhaps someone is sending something odd? It's definitely possible that a bug crept into the Xastir code as well. On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 9:04 AM

Re: [Xastir] Blank Bulletins window keeps popping up?

2019-06-25 Thread Tom Henderson
Still trying to discern a pattern to this. Here's what I have so far. When I get a legitimate bulletin, it displays as expected. But after that, every bulletin that come in causes the bulletin window to trigger over and over again. Tom Henderson On 6/22/19 6:40 PM, Curt Mills wrote: May

[Xastir] Blank Bulletins window keeps popping up?

2019-06-21 Thread Tom Henderson
After receiving a bulletin earlier today, and closing the window, xastir is now popping up a blank bulletins window every few minutes. is this a setting I have screwed up somewhere? -- Tom Henderson ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org

[Xastir] Emergency locate error?

2020-03-08 Thread Tom Henderson
you copy text out of an X window. -- Tom Henderson ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir

[Xastir] Update frequency for FCC and NWS?

2020-04-18 Thread Tom Henderson
Just curious how often most of you update the FCC database and NWS shape files? -- Tom Henderson ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir

[Xastir] Offline map information

2020-04-14 Thread Tom Henderson
digipeater/igate/map tracker. When I use it to support remote race events with no cell coverage, it obviously can't act as an igate, but it would be nice to have access to an offline map For my APRSDroid tablet, I can use maps from mapsforge.org. Can these be used with Xastir also? -- Tom

[Xastir] script to update FCC database

2020-09-03 Thread Tom Henderson
. As it turn out, the script on the Raspian install has an exit statement added right after the base directory is printed, and the Ubuntu install does not have that line added. Any idea how this could be? -- Tom Henderson ___ Xastir mailing list

[Xastir] What causes tracks that look like this?

2020-09-25 Thread Tom Henderson
I have a screenshot at http://www.henderson4.us/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Screenshot-from-2020-09-25-13-41-07.png See the blue trail near teh center that zig-zags back and forth? Is this caused by location beacons arriving out of sequence? -- Tom Henderson

[Xastir] FCC download errors

2020-05-30 Thread Tom Henderson
Just tried to run the script to get FCC callsigns on my raspberry pi for the first time and got the errors: mv: cannot move 'amateur.txt' to '@/share/xastir/fcc/AMACALL.LST': No such file or directory sort: open failed: @/share/xastir/fcc/EN.dat: No such file or directory Full log is

Re: [Xastir] FCC download errors

2020-06-01 Thread Tom Henderson
Aha! It was a rookie mistake. I tried to run the ".in" file from the install script instead of the one in the xastir base directory. Tom Henderson On 5/30/20 4:28 PM, Tom Henderson wrote: Just tried to run the script to get FCC callsigns on my raspberry pi for the first ti

Re: [Xastir] Xastir on raspbian buster

2020-06-07 Thread Tom Henderson
All I can say is that it definitely did run for me. The log below is the result of running the update-xastir script on buster and it completed successfully. Tom Henderson On 6/7/20 9:24 AM, Steve Rogers wrote: Tom, Believe it doesn't run it shows Debian 7 8 and stops. But using git version

Re: [Xastir] Xastir on raspbian buster

2020-06-07 Thread Tom Henderson
On the other hand, if you meant the script lee was talking about, that's not the one I ran. When the OP iniddcated "update script" i assumed we were talking about update-xastir. Tom Henderson On 6/7/20 2:32 PM, Tom Henderson wrote: All I can say is that it definitely did run for m

Re: [Xastir] Xastir on raspbian buster

2020-06-07 Thread Tom Henderson
Can you provide some more detail? I'm running Xastir on Buster, so I know it can be done. Need to know exactly what "the xastir script does not work" actually means. Tom Henderson On 6/7/20 8:07 AM, Joseph LaFerla wrote: Hi I have been using xastir for a long time, mos

Re: [Xastir] OT: Ultramarathon runners

2021-11-20 Thread Tom Henderson
moved. We had a portable iGate at the race site, and a digipeater at the far end of the course, and my home iGate was able to see beacons from parts of the middle of the course and from the digipeater. We didn't have full coverage of the course, but it was good enough to keep track of the cabo