Why not simply ditch the Yaesu radios. They never got aprs right. The vx-8gr at least allow the waypoints to be pulled off the port using the same cable that is used for the Kenwood D7 series and pipe the strings to an aprs program. One still did not have full access to the TNC but could still get a spatial orientation on a map.
Kurt KC9LDH -------------------------------------------- On Fri, 6/8/18, David Ranch <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: [Xastir] Yaesu APRS radios to be used as an RX-only Igate To: "Xastir - APRS client software discussion" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, June 8, 2018, 12:44 PM Hello Xastir users, I saw this today on the APRSDroid group and thought it would be worth passing on. APRS-enabled Yaesu radios have always been limited in the fashion that you cannot access the TNC say like how you can with a Kenwood radio. One feature they do have is to send the APRS data stream to the serial port. This developer wrote a program to parse that data and send the relevant data to APRS-IS. I wonder if a similar feature could be added to Xastir? https://github.com/craigerl/ygate/ --David KI6ZHD _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
