Cool! I'll give it a shot when I get a chance (got some pretty large 'honey-dos'). We're also going to be going over to E WA this weekend, look for KD7ULH-9. I need to get the RadioShack GPS in her car rewired so that it's really getting 5V all the time, now that I'm using the DR135 to power it - the 135 sometimes drops just low enough so that the 5V regulator I put in (back when I was running it off 12V) drops out.
I might also run the cable from her Nuvi and try sending some messages - as I read this, I would just send "KD7ULH Car" to TACTICAL and all of the Xastir boxes out there would pick it up, right? Can/would Xastir respond to that if it was iGated (rather than received direct)? And I guess the NEXT logical question would be "If I send a message FROM Xastir to a station that's only been iGated to me, will Xastir (and APRS in general) take that from the Internet and put it back out on the air?" Clay ======= > > In CVS: The beginnings of being able to share Tactical Call data > with others over the air. The code works already, decoding standard > messages sent to "TACTICAL" which are in one of these four formats: > > My Home > WE7U-3=My Home > WE7U-3=My Home;WE7U-12=Curt's Jeep;WE7U-15=I Don't Know > WE7U-3=;WE7U-12=;WE7U-15= > > In the first case it'll assign "My Home" as the tactical callsign > for the station that sent the message. > > In the last case it'll remove tactical callsigns for the listed > stations. > > The other two cases should be fairly obvious. > > For testing: Remember that you can't send a new message to TACTICAL > until the previous message has either timed-out or been cancelled. > > Regarding the last form: It does make the tactical callsign > disappear from the screen but not in the correct manner yet. The > correct manner would be to free the tactical_callsign string from > the station record and then set the pointer to NULL. As-is, it does > work but just zeroes the string. The only outward indication that > it did the wrong thing is in the small "Station Chooser" box you get > when there are multiple stations under the mouse as you try to get > Station Info: You see "WE7U-15 ()" instead of "WE7U-15" in that > case. Not a big deal but should be fixed. I may get to it tonight. > > I need an APRS+SA station to test against next as it's supposed to > have similar decoding. I implemented the message format I got years > ago from Brent Hildebrand, the APRS+SA author. > > -- > Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com > http://www.eskimo.com/~archer > Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown > Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. > The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" > _______________________________________________ > Xastir-dev mailing list > Xastir-dev@xastir.org > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev > > _______________________________________________ Xastir-dev mailing list Xastir-dev@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev
