--- On Sun, 8/2/09, Gerry Creager <[email protected]> wrote:
> More to the point, I AM interested in things like
> this. However, I offer that, while purpose-built for
> APRS, the D7[01]0 is a flawed radio when folks try to do too
> much with it.
Oh sure, they both have their limitations (though the D710 at least has the
advantage of upgradable firmware unlike it's older sibling). But I think this
feature would have been available on any simple text interface. Take a regular
radio with a TNC and attach a HamHUD or something similar and you still have
the equivalent process: view the raw packet in a small screen. It's just that
I happen to have two D700s and a D7A so that's what I'm used to.
> Now to add to the mix, it looks like WXSVR is dead and
> while Pete Loveall has something together that will serve
> out similar data, the one we relied upon for so long is
> history. Sorta the nature of the hobby: Someone drops
> a service and it's not replicated elsewhere. I've been
> trying to make sure the Core stays replicated and
> geographically diverse, and I'm doing the same with the CWOP
> servers. But that's another story.
Yeah, I noticed that on the APRS SIG mailing list. I haven't had my Xastir
system back up since I moved (still working out some issues with heat in the
room) so I didn't notice it had been switched off until it was mentioned. Of
course that also spawned a nice war over services, replication, release of
code, etc.
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