Curt, I also saw Tom's response first. I looked in my spam folder on Gmail; the original and another Xastir related message from Bill had been flagged as spam.
I have noticed this as a trend ever since Microsoft bought up Github... makes me wonder. 73 Dave KB3EFS On 2/21/20 12:21 PM, Curt Mills wrote: > I didn't see the original message come across the list, only Tom's response. > > You can turn off display of such rectangles here: > > Station -> Filter Display -> Display Position Ambiguity > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 8:08 AM Tom Russo <[email protected]> wrote: >> It's a station transmitting with position ambiguity (truncated precision >> position). The box represents the range of positions that the station could >> be in given the limited amount of data it transmitted. >> >> >> http://blog.aprs.fi/2011/01/position-ambiguity-support.html >> >> http://www.aprs.org/symbols.html >> (APRSdos used circles for ambiguity) >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 10:05:16AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron >> collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: >>> Hi, >>> >>> In the St. Louis, MO area I see from time to time on my Xastir map (rf only) >>> a very large rectangle (more than 50 miles in North/South direction) with an >>> X on the station AC0MW-7.?? The X goes from corner to corner of the >>> rectangle.?? The X and the rectangle are made of dashes.?? I have been using >>> APRS since APRSdos and continue to enjoy it.?? The current Xastir map is >>> shown on my website, www.billbird.com.?? I've tried to discover the answer >>> on my own but have not been able to. >>> >>> Thanks and 73, >>> >>> Bill Bird >>> KG0YJ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Xastir mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir >> -- >> Tom Russo KM5VY >> Tijeras, NM >> >> echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Xastir mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir > > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
