Greetings, I have some questions about how the "Fetch GPS Track" feature works. Another SAR team in the area has started using Garmin Astro units. My team uses APRS. The Astro is designed as a dog collar with a transmitter and a receiver that looks similar to a 60CSx. I know that APRS and the Garmin Astro use incompatible over-the-air formats, but I'm hoping that I can download track data from an Astro receiver to Xastir.
Xastir has a "Fetch GPS Track" option, but I've never used it. I do not have any Astro units to test with right now. I do know that the Astro receivers store the received positions for the transmitters as track points, with a separate track log and name for each transmitter. Unlike the Garmin Rino units, the Astro is VHF and can be attached to an external antenna for increased range. The ideal behavior as I see it would be for Xastir to be able to download these tracks from the GPS receiver and display them on the map, with each track a different color, and labeled with each transmitter's name. Google Earth does something similar to this when downloading from Astro units. Even better would be the ability to schedule a periodic download. Since the Astros use the Garmin USB protocol I'm hoping the above is possible. Has anyone already tried interfacing an Astro unit to Xastir with the current code to see what happens? There was a recent post on the SAR_APRS list about the Astros and APRS, but it wasn't specific to Xastir so I thought I would ask my questions here and forward the response to that list if there is a workable solution. Thanks! Kevin KB9MQU _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
