To make the program more...universal...shouldn't it check for more than the prefix (or maybe it does)? CW and DW are both prefixes that are also used by foreign countries and could be (or maybe already are) on APRS.
At a minimum a CW station should be required to be wx and the last four characters should be numeric I would think. 73 - Matt KB0KQA On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Tom Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:32:22AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > > According to http://www.wxqa.com/news.html : > > > > "Feb 24, 2008 - We have started issuing CWOP IDs that start with DW > > followed by 4 numbers. We have run through 10,000 IDs that start with > > CW, so we have changed to DW and you can see the list of DW stations > > that have sent packets." > > > > > > Does the xastir CWOP display filter on packet type, or does it look at > > the callsign? > > > > Yeah, I could eventually figure this out on my own, but my xastir box > > is at home, and besides that I'm lazy. > > >From db.c: > > // Check whether it is a citizen's weather station > if (strncasecmp(p_station->call_sign,"CW",2) == 0) { > return(Select_.weather_stations && Select_.CWOP_wx_stations); > } > > So no, it won't recognized DW's. Yet. > > -- > Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ > Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 > http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM > "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is > one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, > oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
