I did indeed read the manual and edit the file but came to an impasse, I was refering to Tom's point about being careful flooding the airwaves and frying my radio. Thanks for the suggestion, I have read lsped website and will do some experiments while I learn more about linux. Besides I also feel Xastir is hard to beat as an APRS program! thx Steve kd5mkv
> Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:37:46 -0500 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Xastir] Fwd: help > > Hi Steve, > > Are you referring to the aprx manual? Software like aprx (or aprsg, > ldsped, etc.) is not everyone's cup of tea - mainly involves editing a > text configuration file to set things up. That's kind of the bread > and butter of the Linux world, though. > > Based on Tom's input that Xastir will gate messages from IS to RF, > which is the desired behavior, I'm not sure why in previous posts the > developers seem to discourage using Xastir as an IGate. Below is a > quote from that message. > > > INET->RF only gates to RF messages that are directed from a station heard > > by your igate only on APRS-IS to a station that your igate has heard on > RF. > > As far as I know Xastir gates RF to IS fine, and if it does the above, > then I'm not sure why it's reported as being so limited as an IGate > that people should use something else such as JavAPRSIGate. Based on > the recommendation to use something else, I first used aprx - got it > sharing the TNC with Xastir via AX25. Then I added ldsped, which was > cool because it let me share the TNC with apps on other computers on > the wireless network. Next I added APRSIS32 under Wine, and most > recently I shut aprx down and let APRSIS32 be the IGate. It's ldsped > that brings TNC sharing to the table with APRSIS32 in Linux. It's fun > having the capability to run Xastir and APRSIS32 side by side on the > same machine with both having access to the same TNC. I've thought > about trying out JavAPRSIGate, but I'm not sure what makes it better > than Xastir (or APRSIS32) as an IGate. > > Lee - K5DAT > > > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Steve Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Thanks Lee, I have read it and still cannot make much sense of it, I tried > > to configure but have given up. > > This time of year the aprs stations come down from the cold and traffic is > > moderate. I thought it over after Tom's input > > I don't feel like I have the expertise or anymore time to dedicate to an I > > gate. Also gave up on javAPRSSrvr since rxtx var/lock errors don't allow > > xastir to share the ax25tnc port. I stay with what I know (little) haha ! > > Steve kd5mkv > > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
