Re: [Xastir] Correct command?

2008-10-26 Thread Alex Carver
The backslashes allow that command to be split across multiple lines. If you want to use only one line, don't use the backslashes. Just copy it as a three line command. Copy and paste the first line including the backslash (\) on the end, then hit enter. Repeat for each line. And, yes, the

Re: [Xastir] Using testawk

2008-09-24 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Wed, 9/24/08, Tom Russo wrote: I just googled testawk and think I see what happened. You downloaded the testawk.sh shell script from http://www.shelldorado.com/articles/awkcompat.html and its output is pretty much what you posted. That shell script has nothing whatsoever to do

Re: [Xastir] geo files for simple maps

2008-09-08 Thread Alex Carver
It's just a simple .geo like the others you've seen. First line is the keyword FILENAME and then the filename of the image Next line is keyword TIEPOINT followed by the pixel x, pixel y, longitude, and latitude of the pixel Final line is another TIEPOINT for the opposite corner in the same

Re: [Xastir] Hurricane Watch

2008-09-04 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Thu, 9/4/08, Tom Russo wrote: There's additional information here that I'm not sure is captured anywhere in documentation I can find: for example, what's the overlay character signify? The overlay of S is supposed to stand for Tropical Storm. The overlay will change to any of

[Xastir] dbfawk, overlapping lines, and more

2008-09-03 Thread Alex Carver
I was playing around with the latest offering from the National Hurricane Center website which is a bundle of GIS files including shape files for the three- and five-day projection cones of the various storms. To that end, I was tinkering with a small dbfawk file for these shape files and sort

Re: [Xastir] Downloadable or OnCD/DVD maps

2008-08-30 Thread Alex Carver
Hiya Ronny! You can download the whole set of Tiger data but it'll be a touch slow. They have a nice bit of documentation on the Xastir wiki for getting the older 2003 Tiger data or for using the most current from the Census Bureau as compiled by Jason and hosted by Gerry (or, for a whole lot

Re: [Xastir] GPS Accuracy -- relative vs absolute

2008-08-16 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Sat, 8/16/08, Gerry Creager wrote: From: Gerry Creager Subject: Re: [Xastir] GPS Accuracy -- relative vs absolute To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion xastir@xastir.org Date: Saturday, August 16, 2008, 3:01 PM Pseudo-random but close enough to random for this discussion.

Re: [Xastir] Local Info, repeaters and object.log

2008-08-08 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Fri, 8/8/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Xastir] Local Info, repeaters and object.log To: xastir@xastir.org Date: Friday, August 8, 2008, 12:11 PM On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Craig Anderson Subject: Re:

[Xastir] Multiline protocol format

2008-08-08 Thread Alex Carver
It seems the one link to the multiline protocol format that was hosted at wxsvr.net is not available. Is there another one somewhere around? ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir

Re: [Xastir] Seismic event feed?

2008-08-07 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Thu, 8/7/08, Steve Friis wrote: From: Steve Friis Subject: Re: [Xastir] Seismic event feed? To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion xastir@xastir.org Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 8:25 AM When I enter roeate.aprs.net and use 14579 I cannot connect. It should be

Re: [Xastir] Xastir and Kenwood D-700

2008-08-07 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Thu, 8/7/08, Jim Morgan wrote: From: Jim Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Xastir] Xastir and Kenwood D-700 To: Xastir xastir@xastir.org Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 5:46 PM Couldn't stat file: /usr/share/xastir/config/tnc-startup.d700.sys Skipping send to TNC. Is this my

[Xastir] No more lockups with radar map

2008-08-06 Thread Alex Carver
Switching to GraphicsMagick worked but it also explained the error. ImageMagick was failing without printing an error so I had no idea what was going on. But with GM, it tells me that occasionally the radar GIF is corrupt and thus GM bombs out. It would appear that the combination of

[Xastir] Seismic event feed?

2008-08-06 Thread Alex Carver
I was hunting around online to see if there was a seismic event feed that I could use in Xastir. Know any? If not, I suppose that in my copious free time I'll figure out how to write a program to parse and inject the data into Xastir. :)

Re: [Xastir] Seismic event feed?

2008-08-06 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Wed, 8/6/08, Curt, WE7U wrote: From: Curt, WE7U Subject: Re: [Xastir] Seismic event feed? To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion xastir@xastir.org Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 6:15 PM On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Alex Carver wrote: I was hunting around online to see

Re: [Xastir] No more lockups with radar map

2008-08-06 Thread Alex Carver
. Actually this has nothing to do with the radar images you serve up. I only pull one radar image directly from NWS servers. So it's the NWS feed that breaks ImageMagick at times. Alex Carver wrote: Switching to GraphicsMagick worked but it also explained the error. ImageMagick

Re: [Xastir] Seismic event feed?

2008-08-06 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Wed, 8/6/08, Steve Friis wrote: From: Steve Friis Subject: Re: [Xastir] Seismic event feed? To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion xastir@xastir.org Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 11:30 PM Curt, WE7U wrote: On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Steve Friis wrote: This is a website that

Re: [Xastir] Xastir and maps lockup - found part of problem

2008-07-31 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Thu, 7/31/08, Curt, WE7U [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Curt, WE7U [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Xastir] Xastir and maps lockup - found part of problem To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion xastir@xastir.org Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 3:28 PM On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Alex

[Xastir] Xastir and maps lockup - found part of problem

2008-07-30 Thread Alex Carver
Ok, running the very latest that was available in CVS, my copy locked up after a few days of running with the NWS gif map of my local radar. So I poked around and apparently what happened was that Xastir used up all the free RAM in the system. Killing off the process releases almost 30 MB of

Re: [Xastir] Inverted video in dialogs not functional

2008-07-27 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Sun, 7/27/08, Tom ve7did wrote: From: Tom ve7did Subject: Re: [Xastir] Inverted video in dialogs not functional To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion xastir@xastir.org, Alex Carver Date: Sunday, July 27, 2008, 8:44 PM That's one of the problems I had with lesstif 0.93.91

Re: [Xastir] View station comment

2008-07-08 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Tue, 7/8/08, Jason KG4WSV wrote: From: Jason KG4WSV Subject: Re: [Xastir] View station comment To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion xastir@xastir.org Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2008, 11:02 AM On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 9:56 AM, William McKeehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With more

Re: [Xastir] Lockups using maps again

2008-07-02 Thread Alex Carver
Ok, it takes about a day and a half for the system to lock up under Fluxbox. Checking with ps ax, there is no instance of an ImageMagick process running in the background. Top shows Xastir is consuming 95% of the CPU but not much RAM. There are no error messages in the console about a failed

RE: [Xastir] Lockups using maps again

2008-07-02 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Wed, 7/2/08, Bob Donnell wrote: From: Bob Donnell Subject: RE: [Xastir] Lockups using maps again To: 'Xastir - APRS client software discussion' xastir@xastir.org Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 7:03 PM Hmmm - just occurred to me - do you have the FilePNG Snapshots button selected?

Re: [Xastir] Lockups using maps again

2008-07-01 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Tue, 7/1/08, Curt, WE7U wrote: From: Curt, WE7U Subject: Re: [Xastir] Lockups using maps again To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion xastir@xastir.org Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2008, 12:24 PM On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Alex Carver wrote: Another thought: It could be the ImageMagick

Re: [Xastir] Lockups using maps again

2008-06-30 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Sun, 6/29/08, Curt, WE7U wrote: From: Curt, WE7U Subject: Re: [Xastir] Lockups using maps again To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion xastir@xastir.org Date: Sunday, June 29, 2008, 11:25 PM On Sat, 28 Jun 2008, Alex Carver wrote: Well I was wrong, even using Fluxbox

Re: [Xastir] Lockups using maps again

2008-06-30 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Sun, 6/29/08, Curt, WE7U wrote: From: Curt, WE7U Subject: Re: [Xastir] Lockups using maps again To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion xastir@xastir.org Date: Sunday, June 29, 2008, 11:25 PM On Sat, 28 Jun 2008, Alex Carver wrote: Well I was wrong, even using Fluxbox

[Xastir] Lockups using maps again

2008-06-28 Thread Alex Carver
Well I was wrong, even using Fluxbox the system locked up again while attempting to download the radar image. It seems to have timed out on the download and then froze at that point, unable to recover. ___ Xastir mailing list

Re: [Xastir] Lockups on a fresh system

2008-06-25 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Wed, 6/25/08, Ray Wells wrote: From: Ray Wells Subject: Re: [Xastir] Lockups on a fresh system To: Alex Carver Cc: xastir@xastir.org Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 3:59 AM Alex Carver wrote: I know this was a couple of weeks ago but I finally started getting lockups

Re: [Xastir] comport kludge

2008-06-22 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Sun, 6/22/08, Wes Johnston, AI4PX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Wes Johnston Subject: [Xastir] comport kludge To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion xastir@xastir.org Date: Sunday, June 22, 2008, 5:41 PM Since I'm having trouble getting andLinux to speak to a comport, and

Re: [Xastir] Lockups on a fresh system

2008-06-11 Thread Alex Carver
Well, I've removed the curl libraries (oddly enough changing permissions on the include headers didn't break configure) and let Xastir pick up on wget and so far no lockups. The system was using libcurl3 when I installed Xastir the first time. Fortunately nothing else requires curl or I'd be

Re: [Xastir] Lockups on a fresh system

2008-06-11 Thread Alex Carver
Ok, wget doesn't work either. There was an error in the console that said that the radar image couldn't be downloaded, increase internet map timeout. However, the timeout is maxed out at 300s. So apparently Xastir doesn't like it when a map isn't available but, in my case, it simply dies

Re: [Xastir] Lockups on a fresh system

2008-06-11 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Wed, 6/11/08, Curt, WE7U wrote: From: Curt, WE7U Subject: Re: [Xastir] Lockups on a fresh system To: Alex Carver Cc: xastir@xastir.org Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 11:32 PM On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Alex Carver wrote: Ok, wget doesn't work either. There was an error

Re: [Xastir] Lockups on a fresh system

2008-06-09 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Sun, 6/8/08, Curt, WE7U wrote: From: Curt, WE7U Subject: Re: [Xastir] Lockups on a fresh system To: Richard Polivka, N6NKO Cc: xastir@xastir.org Date: Sunday, June 8, 2008, 11:29 PM On Sun, 8 Jun 2008, Richard Polivka, N6NKO wrote: Possibly, is there an issue with either

Re: [Xastir] Lockups on a fresh system

2008-06-09 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Mon, 6/9/08, Curt, WE7U wrote: From: Curt, WE7U Subject: Re: [Xastir] Lockups on a fresh system To: Alex Carver Cc: xastir@xastir.org Date: Monday, June 9, 2008, 11:12 PM On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Alex Carver wrote: Ok, it locked up again while handling the radar GIFs

Re: [Xastir] Lockups on a fresh system

2008-06-08 Thread Alex Carver
Ok, no lockups when I disabled the map so I reenabled the map on Friday. It ran just fine all weekend long...until today. Top says Xastir is using 100% CPU and the last thing it was about to do is refresh the maps. There is no ImageMagick process running in the background. However, there is

Re: [Xastir] Lockups on a fresh system

2008-06-08 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Sun, 6/8/08, Curt, WE7U wrote: The main thread does all the graphical stuff. Perhaps the new bulletin popping up is causing a problem with the map updating, or perhaps there's some interaction with your window manager as far as the new bulleting coming up. Remind us what OS,

Re: [Xastir] Lockups on a fresh system

2008-06-08 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Sun, 6/8/08, Richard Polivka, N6NKO wrote: From: Richard Polivka, N6NKO Subject: Re: [Xastir] Lockups on a fresh system To: Ray Wells Cc: Alex Carver Date: Sunday, June 8, 2008, 10:18 PM Possibly, is there an issue with either Lesstif or OpenMotif? 73 from a very soggy 807

Re: [Xastir] Lockups on a fresh system

2008-06-05 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Wed, 6/4/08, Curt, WE7U wrote: I've seen GPM mess with stuff before and so killed it. GPM is only needed when you're running in text mode and want to do mouse cut/paste operations. Not needed if you're running X. Yeah, it's not running anymore but there were quite a few other

Re: [Xastir] Lockups on a fresh system

2008-06-05 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Thu, 6/5/08, Curt, WE7U wrote: You might open up top in a window and watch it while Xastir is locked up. See if ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick is taking all your CPU at that point. Does the mouse come back after the updated map appears on your screen? Could do that, I'll try it next

Re: [Xastir] bluetooth serial port issues

2008-04-22 Thread Alex Carver
If the software is written natively for OS X (rather than just a Unix compile) it might be more aware of the hardware system and gracefully handle hardware errors including the disappearance of hardware. That's why I was suggesting an actual OS X application and not necessarily another

Re: [Xastir] bluetooth serial port issues

2008-04-21 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Mon, 4/21/08, Jason KG4WSV wrote: I'm trying to do some cable reduction on my xastir mobile rig, and I bought a bluetooth/rs232 dongle ( http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/412767-REG/Iogear_GBS301_Serial_Adapter_with_Bluetooth.html ) to play with. If conditions are perfect, it works

Re: [Xastir] Day/Night Users

2008-04-19 Thread Alex Carver
Yes, -c /path/to/config/directory So under one account have three configuration directories: ~/bob/.xastir (default) ~/bob/.xastir.night ~/bob/.xastir.day Then start xastir accordingly even using shell scripts: ~/xastir.night: #!/bin/bash xastir -c ~/bob/.xastir.night ~/xastir.day:

Re: [Xastir] Re: Day/Night Users

2008-04-19 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Sat, 4/19/08, Herman I. May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Herman I. May Subject: [Xastir] Re: Day/Night Users To: xastir@xastir.org Date: Saturday, April 19, 2008, 1:23 PM On [EMAIL PROTECTED]:14CDT, Alex Carver wrote: Then start xastir accordingly even using shell scripts

Re: [Xastir] Xastir crash

2008-04-16 Thread Alex Carver
--- Curt, WE7U [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The home machine, hooked to only a KISS TNC, has been running a few days and is at 43MB virtual, 11MB resident, 7.1MB shared. Much better when using only a serial port (USB-Serial adapter in this case). So... Could it be the TCP/IP stack that

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-11 Thread Alex Carver
--- James Ewen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can connect to one server with a radius around my house, and to another one with a radius around another area I'd like to watch. Unless I can ask for multiple areas all from one server... I've never tried that... can I ask for radius around 2

Re: [Xastir] Timing Menu

2008-04-08 Thread Alex Carver
-- Keith Kaiser wrote: I use Mac OS X v10.5.2 on a MacBook Pro with 4Gb Ram. I have Xastir v1.9.2 up and running pretty well with just a couple problems, this is the first. The attached file is a screen capture of the 'Configure Timing' menu, please note that it has no labels, I

Re: [Xastir] Re: Xastir web interface?

2008-04-02 Thread Alex Carver
It's different. Xastir can, for any US user, show things like NWS watch and warning boxes, radar images, and whatever else you can fit on your map that Google Earth will not. Plus, for me, I don't feel like letting Google put cookies on my machine to follow me around but that's just me. ---

Re: [Xastir] Re: Xastir web interface?

2008-04-02 Thread Alex Carver
--- Keith Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Found the setting, it's not labeled on my implementation should it be? Yes, it should say snapshot rate or snapshot delay (I don't remember the exact wording. I like the idea of only having one instance of it running. Thanks. Yeah, it's handy

Re: [Xastir] Xastir web interface?

2008-04-01 Thread Alex Carver
Regarding your cron entry not working, I find it's usually safest to write a script into a file (even if it's a one-liner) and then only call the script from cron. It tends to be much happier. So one extra file is needed as follows: ~/scripts/convertimage.sh: #!/bin/bash #bash happens to be my

Re: [Xastir] Tnc, connection choices

2008-03-10 Thread Alex Carver
--- Jason KG4WSV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/10/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jason, I read on Keyspan's site that they were not supporting Ubuntu due to licensing issues. That's unfortunate. I haven't dealt with Ubuntu. I had heard that folks had used the

Re: [Xastir] Tnc, connection choices

2008-03-10 Thread Alex Carver
--- Alex Carver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The serial adapter from IOGear is based on the FTDI chipset as well (at least as far as I can tell from peering through the clear housing). I've got five of them and all of them work just fine. Ooops, guess not anymore. The batch I have happens

Re: [Xastir] Xastir and Ultimeter weather station

2008-01-23 Thread Alex Carver
--- Richard Polivka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree on the -9 selection since any other real value is possibly correct. Gerry Creager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: too! And you just raised a key one. We should have a standard value for *Missing Data* such as, -9 (which is, in fact,

Re: [Xastir] Xastir and Ultimeter weather station

2008-01-22 Thread Alex Carver
Darn. How difficult would it be to implement? I was looking at the ser2net package running under openwrt on an Asus WL-500gP 'appliance' to better locate my wind and temp sensors. I've found some commercial solutions (BB Electronics) which include a driver to implement a 'virtual

[Xastir] Re: XASTIR SERVER AND COM PORTS FOR MULTIPLE COMPUTERS

2008-01-20 Thread Alex Carver
--- vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be nice if Xastir would provide whatever data you wanted via the server port supplied. However one would have to chose between multiple sets of data collected and it would have to be specified. Under a Unix environment, you can sometimes pull some

Re: [Xastir] Fixes and Addons

2008-01-20 Thread Alex Carver
--- Alex Carver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to see an example of UI-View decoding telemetry. It sounds interesting. As for the stations, I can see in the code that it's set up for only one window, destroying and recreating the window as each new station is brought up. I'm sure

Re: [Xastir] Fixes and Addons

2008-01-20 Thread Alex Carver
[Copied back onto the Xastir mailing list] --- N5VRP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Carver wrote: If I understand correctly, you want to pull up more than one station information window at a time? Yes, I run an rf/igate and have many stations all over Texas. I also track fellows who go

Re: [Xastir] Xastir and Ultimeter weather station

2008-01-19 Thread Alex Carver
--- Steve Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since Weather Display generates my weather webserver pages, I'll be keeping it around for the forseeable future. I could split off another serial connection from the Ultimeter but that would mean hanging another usb to serial adaptor off of my

Re: [Xastir] Xastir and Ultimeter weather station

2008-01-19 Thread Alex Carver
--- Steve Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 19, 2008, at 6:46 PM, Alex Carver wrote: work. Some of them are commercial so you'll be paying. I think one that's rather popular is Franson GPSGate. The Mac only has to run a program called 'socat' which can turn a network connection

Re: [Xastir] Xastir and Ultimeter weather station

2008-01-19 Thread Alex Carver
--- vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I missed the start of this thread. I've been using an Ultimeter with Xastir for many years now. What is the problem, I maybe can help. Regards Victor Steve can fill in a lot of the details but he's trying to use two computers with one Ultimeter and doesn't

Re: [Xastir] Xastir and Ultimeter weather station

2008-01-19 Thread Alex Carver
This thread gave me a reminder to go look up the data formats for the Ultimeter. I've slowly been designing a weather station that I'd eventually like to build and put up when I have an actual place to do it (not an apartment). Now I know how to format the data to plug it into Xastir.

Re: [Xastir] Fixes and Addons

2008-01-19 Thread Alex Carver
--- txniteowl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Can the STATIONS list be broken out into multiple windows with Wx, Raw data, and analog/digital i/o from TinyTrak 4 packets or Peet Wx Stations, etc? There is a weather station list in the View menu and a mobile station list. It currently doesn't

Re: [Xastir] status icons explained where?

2007-11-25 Thread Alex Carver
--- ke5c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've searched unsuccessfully for an explantion of the status icons in the right side of Xastir's bottom pane. Where is that? I've figured a few, but others remain a mystery. Thanks in advance. You mean the multi-color bars in the corner? Those

Re: [Xastir] Is traffic encryption possible?

2007-11-11 Thread Alex Carver
--- Tom Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 08:23:18PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] flavor, containing: Tom, there's one sure way to fix this misconception... add the code, then you don't have to refute this everytime it

[Xastir] What's with the bullseye?

2007-09-04 Thread Alex Carver
So I come back from work today and see this large bullseye hovering over central South Carolina. What is it? There's quite a bit of activity at the center and track logs show vehicles driving all about. http://acarver.net:8900/xastir.png

Re: [Xastir] What's with the bullseye?

2007-09-04 Thread Alex Carver
--- Curt, WE7U [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like proximity circles being drawn by an Xastir station running version 1.7.1. 440cvr and 441.7125 are both Xastir objects from AI4PX. I think he added the proximity circles to one or both of those objects. Ok, so what do the proximity

Re: [Xastir] What's with the bullseye?

2007-09-04 Thread Alex Carver
--- Tom Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In this case, though, it is apparent from the comments associated with the object that it is being used to show the coverage of a UHF station rather than SAR information. http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=440cvr shows 441.7125 coverage

Re: [Xastir] Peet Bros U500 w/xastir

2007-09-04 Thread Alex Carver
--- Rick Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /* wind speed */ if (data[2]!='-') { // '-' signifies invalid data substr(temp_data1,(char *)(data+2),4); ...so here's how I'm reading this: The input line is in an array of characters 'data', and

Re: [Xastir] Newer xastir ?.

2007-08-25 Thread Alex Carver
1.9.1 if you compile from source --- Erik Jakobsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Running openSuSE 10.2, and Xastir 1.8.5 Is there a more new version for SuSE ? -- Med venlig hilsen / Best regards Erik Jakobsen OZ4KK [EMAIL PROTECTED] openSuSE 10.2 (i586)

Re: [Xastir] IGating

2007-08-25 Thread Alex Carver
--- Matt Werner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/25/07, Alex Carver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In that same train of thought, it would be nice if the APRS-IS could show the duplicate packets instead of discarding them. Then you possibly _could_ get a better understanding of the RF

[Xastir] Level control for GNIS files

2007-08-22 Thread Alex Carver
Where is the source of data that determines whether Xastir shows a particular point in a GNIS file or not at any given zoom level? Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles.

[Xastir] Display levels with GNIS files

2007-08-22 Thread Alex Carver
Hmm, the vast multitude of interweb tubes ate my last message. Let's try again. :) Playing around with the GNIS files, I've filtered them down a bit so that I'm not swamped with 30,000 records but I wanted to know what exactly is controlling whether a GNIS feature displays or doesn't at a

[Xastir] Sourceforge borked CVS again

2007-08-22 Thread Alex Carver
Just thought I'd let you know that the CVS configuration changed again. It's now xastir.cvs.sourceforge.net in case anyone gets no route to host errors. Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship

[Xastir] New XBMs?

2007-08-22 Thread Alex Carver
Will the new XBMs that were discussed here show up soon in the CVS distribution? Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games.

Re: [Xastir] Areas of Maximum Concern not showing

2007-08-02 Thread Alex Carver
--- Curt, WE7U [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Eric Christensen wrote: I ASSUMED that they were Dale's because they appeared to be weather alerts. I just checked the Storm Prediction Center's site and I don't see anything brewing so I don't know what this is. I'll keep

Re: [Xastir] Showing only one station/trail

2007-07-15 Thread Alex Carver
Assign a tactical call sign to that station (and only that station), and then choose Select Tactical Calls Only in the Station-Filter Data menu. Brilliant! I completely forget about tactical callsigns (never really use them) and would never have even thought of this one.

Re: [Xastir] FCC lookup

2007-07-12 Thread Alex Carver
--- Earl Needham via Kubuntu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh ho! That sounds pretty familiar! So where can I find this FCC-get script? /usr/local/lib/xastir/fcc-get It does more than download the files, it does a bunch of parsing trickery and magic to get the file sorted.

Re: Spam:*****, Re: [Xastir] Mac: odd process problem

2007-07-08 Thread Alex Carver
--- Chip G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd love to hear other suggestions. If the problem does relate to the USB adapter, is there any chance it relates to the Xastir code? Or is it certain to he the driver? I doubt it's Xastir because Xastir doesn't really know it's a USB device. As far

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Alex Carver
--- Curt, WE7U [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me there may be a few things that cause it to exit prematurely, but I can't think of what they might be right now. Perhaps Motif/Lesstif was one such? Yep, Motif/Lesstif is one that bombs out immediately. I just tried to recompile after

RE: [Xastir] CYGWIN?

2007-07-04 Thread Alex Carver
--- Earl Needham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect it's due to my ignorance more than anything else. I run startxwin.bat and get the X window up, but then can't seem to find Xastir, which is installed, I just can't get to it. DIR doesn't give me a directory, so

RE: [Xastir] CYGWIN?

2007-07-04 Thread Alex Carver
--- Earl Needham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I just don't know how to start Xastir? I type xastir and hit the Enter key, and get back a blank line, and no Xastir application. None that I can see, anyway. Hmm, try this instead. Open a Cygwin bash shell (don't use the batch

RE: [Xastir] CYGWIN?

2007-07-04 Thread Alex Carver
--- Earl Needham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have noticed that callpass works FB but Xastir doesn't seem to produce any results. Do I need to compile something for Xastir to work, or does the Cygwin installer do it all? If you selected Xastir in the software list that the

Re: Fwd: Re: [Xastir] Xastir responding to ?APRSS

2007-07-02 Thread Alex Carver
Ok, this was supposed to go to the list not directly to Tom. --- Tom Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:49:14AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] flavor, containing: Forwarded as per Tom's suggestion (originally part of a long

Re: [Xastir] Xastir responding to ?APRSS

2007-07-01 Thread Alex Carver
--- Tom Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 04:35:25PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] flavor, containing: The question was, does Xastir respond to a directed station query ?APRSS and, if so, where is the reply programmed in

Re: [Xastir] System cost options

2007-06-27 Thread Alex Carver
--- Curt, WE7U [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Alex Carver wrote: Don't forget also that a combination FRS/GMRS device like a Rino has a stock, low gain antenna that is not replaceable in order to maintain compliance with the FCC rules governing FRS. So the MicroTrak

Re: [Xastir] System cost options

2007-06-26 Thread Alex Carver
--- Tom Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 09:06:18PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] flavor, containing: Thanks for the suggestion. I noted in the MicroTrak 300 manual, ...power output in the range of 300 mW, and is

Re: [Xastir] Weather maps are now black

2007-06-20 Thread Alex Carver
--- J. Lance Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a good thing. Now we can also use radar images that have roads and other labels on them and blank out the color used for those roads and labels to get a relatively raw radar overlay. Silly question, if you want a raw radar overlay, why

Re: [Xastir] Weather maps are now black

2007-06-20 Thread Alex Carver
--- J. Lance Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 6/20/2007 2:14 PM Alex Carver said the following: --- J. Lance Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a good thing. Now we can also use radar images that have roads and other labels on them and blank out the color used for those roads

[Xastir] Strange crash

2007-06-10 Thread Alex Carver
I was running Xastir on my Linux system with the window being exported over to my Windows machine running StarNet XWin 32. I clicked on the Xastir window today only to find that it had crashed with this in the terminal: X Error of failed request: BadLength (poly request too large or internal

Re: [Xastir] Window managers

2007-05-18 Thread Alex Carver
--- J. Lance Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 5/18/2007 2:28 PM Curt, WE7U said the following: On Fri, 18 May 2007, Rice, MA Mark @ IS wrote: By the way, is there a feature in Xastir to set the number of log files rotated so that if I wanted to keep a week (or two) of logged data, I

[Xastir] dbfawk and tiled shape files

2007-04-26 Thread Alex Carver
I was trying to customize some of the dbfawk files the other day and was having difficulty figuring out why it didn't work. On my setup, to speed up loading, I've broken up a lot of the shape files into tiled sections (I forgot the tool used but it was on the web page somewhere at one point).

Re: [Xastir] dbfawk and tiled shape files

2007-04-26 Thread Alex Carver
--- Tom Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 12:39:34PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] flavor, containing: On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Mike Fenske wrote: You can get by with one dbfawk file if the dbf fields are the same for

[Xastir] Forgot about GNIS

2007-04-26 Thread Alex Carver
Ok, I shouldn't have buried GNIS in my dbfawk question, bad form of me. So what did I do to cause my GNIS maps to die? It was working up until I did a flush map cache and then reindex all maps. Now nothing shows up and the files don't even show up in the map list (the directory does, but not

Re: [Xastir] dbfawk and tiled shape files

2007-04-26 Thread Alex Carver
--- Jason Winningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a roundabout way of getting there (I got there by accident), but the National Atlas has a counties shapefile that's different from the NOAA counties shapefile. I use Nat'l Atlas for drawing maps and the NOAA version for alerts.

Re: [Xastir] Forgot about GNIS

2007-04-26 Thread Alex Carver
--- Alex Carver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I shouldn't have buried GNIS in my dbfawk question, bad form of me. So what did I do to cause my GNIS maps to die? It was working up until I did a flush map cache and then reindex all maps. Now nothing shows up and the files don't even show