Greetings Mike, Now I am on the same page. Thank you for our explanation.
Best regards, Fred > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Long (N3QD) > Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 17:49 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Xastir] Gating WX from IP to RF - THE SOLUTION > > Fred, > > I have a little bit of a unique situation. My WX > Station is a Davis Vantage Pro. The only way to get the VP > to work with XASTIR on Linux is software called Meteo. Now, > I'm not a Linux genius, or a complete > newbie either, but Meteo uses MySql and is very difficult to > set up. > Almost none of the instructions that came with the package > worked on my Ubuntu System. So since I could not get Meteo > working, I needed to find another way to get my WX station on > APRS. The software package I'm using to log WX Data from the > VP and create my WX Website > is called WView. I got that set up on my system in about two > hours. > The problem is it does not interface with Xastir, so I needed > to find another way of beaconing my WX Data to RF. This > whole thread was about getting Xastir to gate my, and only > my, WX from the net to RF. > > N1NAZ is doing what you may call the "normal" way to do > multiple stations. I too have APRS in my truck as N3QD-9. > His -4 (HF Digi) was last received 42 days ago and is likely > off the air now. If I were able to get Meteo working, my WX > would be a different SSID under my callsign too. I could not > do that in this case because Xastir would not gate my > callsign from IP to RF. That's why I had to use a tactical > callsign as my station call. This is all a big workaround > because Xastir doesn't directly support the Vantage Pro, and > I wanted my WX on the local RF network. I had to do the same > thing in a different way with UI-View. Make sense? > > 73, > Mike (N3QD) > > > On Dec 4, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Fred Hillhouse wrote: > > > > > Okay I am confused, why not do something like this guy? > > http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=n1NAZ* > > > > N1NAZ is a vehicle > > N1NAZ-1 is the WX > > N1NAZ-4 looks like a digi and igate > > N1NAZ-5 looks like a digi and igate > > > > -5 looks like duplication of -4. > > > > > > I looked at N1IIC's stations and he has -3 as a IGate and -4 as a > > Digi. He is mobile somewhere else in the country as -14. > > http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=n1iic* > > > > What is the "normal" way to do multiple stations? Is there a better > > way? > > > > Best regards, > > Fred > > > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
