Dave, On 08/21/2012 01:56 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Here's where I am at: > > 1. MARS mod reversed and DR-135T Rx sensitivity restored. > > 2. Minicom can send CALIBRATE then l, h, a, or p and it is > transmitted. > > 3. Minicom detects Beacon transmissions from my TH-D72a. > > 4. I have receive on Xastir (have to check my TH-D72a settings > as the Xastir map thinks it is in southern Europe).
This is a common and easy to fix problem. In North America our LATITUDE entries need to be POSITIVE numbers while our LONGITUDE numbers need a NEGATIVE in front of them. Make sure that the numbers are correct in the station config file in Xastir as that is where the TH-D72a is getting its location from versus any GPS that you may have on the system; especially if you hit the "transmit now" from within Xastir. Also _IF_ you have a GPS on the system make sure you have the interface set up correctly from within the interface menu. > > 5. Xastir "Transmit Now!" causes a packet signal to be transmitted. > > 6. I think I need to tweak a bunch of settings in Xastir and will > walk through the Help to learn what I can. > > 7. I need a PERL script like /usb/lib/xastir/kiss-off.pl to > send the proper commands to STDOUT to command the KISS TNC > into USBKISS mode because even though technically the OT3m > holds in KISS mode it doesn't seem to hold in USBKISS mode. > > It needs to be redirected to the port that the TNC is > connected to as it otherwise assumes that the Port and > TNC are matched. > > The script would be vaguely like this (I don't know PERL): > > ./kiss-on.pl >/dev/ttyACM0 > > #!/bin/bash > # > # I believe the following sets the port parameters for Minicom. > # And it also tells the gui to echo keyboard strokes? > # What of this would be necessary in a non-gui script? > > echo -ne '\xC0\xFF\xC0' > /dev/ttyACM0 > > # Opens Minicom in gui mode with port comm settings. > > minicom -D /dev/ttyACM0 -b 115200 -o > > # In manual gui mode one has to hit "Enter" to get to > # the "cmd:" prompt - would that be necessary in command > # line mode? If so, how would that be accomplished? > > "USBKISS on" > > # to exit Minicom > > CTRL-A X > > # to open Xastir > > xastir & > Otherwise it does look much better than when you started. 73 Dave KB3EFS -- David A Aitcheson [email protected] Go Green! Print this email only when necessary. _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
