On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 01:04:28PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Curt, WE7U <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 16 Jan 2011, Harry Bloomberg wrote: > > > > I've got a new Kenwood TH-D72 that I've interfaced to Xastir. It's > >> working > >> except for one problem. Xastir is unable to obtain GPS data from the > >> TH-D72. Whenever I do View->GPS, I see an error message: GPS data is > >> older > >> than 30 seconds. > >> > > > > Which Xastir interface type are you using? It should be "Serial TNC w/GPS > > on Aux Port". This is the mode where Xastir will send a Control-E > > periodically when it wants a GPS string from the Radio's TNC. Also called > > Control-E mode or Paccomm mode. > > > > > I am able to connect to the TH-D72 using minicom and a USB cable. Would it > be of any value for me to manually query the TH-D72's TNC for GPS data? I > took a look at the Kenwood instruction set for the TNC and it was not > obvious to me what the TNC commands would be to obtain GPS data to see why > Xastir might think it is stale or unavailable, so I will need some help with > the exact TNC instructions.
Just a guess: The tnc-startup.thd7 file has commands commented out at the end that enable GPS data to be sent to Xastir. Are you using this startup script? Did you uncomment those lines? -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off." _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
