Comments below. On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Clay Jackson <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, since I LIKE all the firenet stuff, it works for me. Changed my > filter to f/PROSSR/100; and I'm now seeing everything I expected.
Right, that's the whole point of firenet. If someone like David were to not want information such as that, then that's what the regular IS is for. > For folks who haven't tried it aprx is a pretty decent digi/igate - among > other things, it has a "viscous-delay" feature that waits a specified number > of seconds (5 is default) before it digis/igates a report, just in case > someone ELSE got it first, Around here (rural E WA), it doesn't matter so > much, but I can see where that would be a great feature in a crowded > environment. I'm actually amazed at the number of stations I'm igating and > their distance from me - all the way from Baker City, OR, well over 100 > miles. Bruninga will strongly disagree with you about whether that is acceptable practice on the National APRS Net (not having all digipeaters "fire at once" immediately after hearing a packet), but I would agree with you that it could be a useful feature. Brett KQ9N > > Clay > N7QNM > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lynn W. Deffenbaugh > (Mr) > Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2014 1:46 PM > To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion > Subject: Re: [Xastir] No stations > > So, what you're clarifying is that you originally meant to say: > >> If you want*ONLY* local APRS-IS traffic AND weather alerts via >> Internet, > > And in that case, you better not give the m/ filter to the Firenet > connection. > > Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32 > > > > On 3/6/2014 4:08 PM, David Flood wrote: >> It is true if all you want are houses, cars, the occasional obnoxious >> object, and weather alerts. Unless you have a filter string that is >> so long it isn't funny. >> >> Now, if you want all the extra stuff that firenet carries, then yes, a >> single connection is all that is needed. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lynn W. >> Deffenbaugh >> (Mr) >> >> On 3/6/2014 1:32 PM, David Flood wrote: >>> If you want local APRS-IS traffic AND weather alerts via Internet, >>> you have to set up two Internet connections, one for the regular >>> APRS-IS >>> (stations) and one for Firenet (Weather). >> That is decidedly not true. Firenet gets a full feed of everything on >> the APRS-IS as well as it's own local stuff. Firenet has the superset >> and is the only connection you need for this type of operation. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
