Hello de KI7WV Please forgive if this is a duplicate post- I am afraid that the first was submitted before I became a list member.
I am new to APRS. Have a TNC-X (thanks John!) and Linux Debian setup at a cabin with iGate and RF. The RF is KI7WV-2, the iGate is SMRHVN. I use wview to transmit weather observations to cwop (AS801) and post on the web (www.pocomas.net). The weather observations go out via tcpip and at present I am sending an aprs beacon ki7wv-2 on 144.390. The beacon is working (I can findme on findu) and I would like to move on with some custom programming. I am looking for the easiest tool (hopefully already written) to send a beacon payload to the aprs system via linux. I would like to send telemetry packets on station status when operating on emergency power (battery voltage, time on backup, temperature etc). So, I would do something (probably perl) to pull the data together and format telemetry, telemetry description, and weather packets to go out via rf when power is down. Assuming I can rtfm and properly format the payload for each of these... what is the simplest tool to get a packet out the RF port? I have been playing with the "beacon" command but cannot seem to configure it to have it read by the aprs digi that I am adjacent to. Another (simpleminded) approach would be to generate a new aprsd.conf file with a tnc beacon text that is specific to the packet that is to be transmitted, then start and stop aprsd. Finally (the approach I am trying to avoid) is through generating another command line util and seeing if I can get it added to ax25-tools that does what I seem to want beacon to do- send out a payload of my spec, but with automatically increasing time intervals between transmissions, and stopping when the next payload is given. Sorry for the long post. I have been digging around quite a bit and have not found anything that looks like it will answer this question. I realize that XASTIR is quite capable but I am looking for something that will run on minumal debian hardware such as a NSLU2 or one of the newer ARM processors such as the SHEEVA plug, so hopefully this is something that can be done with ax25-tools or -utils. Maybe I am just not using "beacon" correctly for it to send an APRS packet. I have my call sign (KI7WV-2) as "Source Callsign" and "APRS>WIDE2-3" as destination callsign. Thanks and 73's Joe KI7WV jmiller at eyes dot arizona dot edu Joseph M Miller MD MPH Professor and Head, Ophthalmology and Vision Science Professor of Optical Sciences and Public Health The University of Arizona 655 North Alvernon Way Suite 108 Tucson Arizona 85711 v 520-321-3677 f 520-321-3665 _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
