On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Kelly Martin-AB9RF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmm... it's an interesting idea. Currently the splat analysis is raster
data, but I think there is some way to have it calculate vector data. Might
be easier to run the raster analysis through a line tracer. I'd love
We don't know anyone with enough free time to worry about making
events for earth shivers... Personally I live where Terra Firma is
exactly that!
Curt will let you know all about firenet...
There's more than enough stuff going on on that feed to keep you busy
for a while.
James
VE6SRV
On Wed,
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Curt, WE7U [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess once two people have it and are seeding it
changes things, but that initial first download would take forever.
Just a minor point, but it is a significant reason why torrents work so well...
If you have one seeder
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Jason KG4WSV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
there's no point in connecting to more than one aprs.net or aprs2.net
server (core or tier 2)
Sure there is... you can set up multiple filters, and pick what you
want out of the stream
I can connect to one server with a
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Murry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They won't load. Wondering if anyone else has problems.
When you say load, do you mean download from the Toporama server, or
load from your hard drive and display on screen?
The script for downloading from the net is written to
On 12/23/07, Russell Handorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think it's that I had it configged for 9600 baud, not 1200. When I use
the internal TNC on the radio for 9600 Baud, I have no updates where as
1200 shows all the traffic.
When you say you are using the internal TNC, do you mean using the
On Nov 20, 2007 11:44 AM, Fred Hillhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Interesting product! It is unclear how it interfaces with a radio but it
looks like custom cables are available.
From what I read, this unit will interface through a standard
microphone connector. As such, it will have to act in
On Nov 11, 2007 7:46 PM, Tom Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I remember correctly, Xastir should also
support the !DAO! format
No. This keeps getting stated on APRSSIG as if it were fact, but it is not
true. Xastir does NOT implement !DAO!. Nobody has ever coded it up.
Tom, there's one
Xastir currently is a functional piece of software that does a very
decent job of acting as an APRS client. It is in no way handicapped by
limited functionality.
What needs to happen, is that someone (in the development group) needs
to mark a line in the sand(s of time), and start development of
On 10/1/07, Tony Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did I read correctly that the Fetch FindU trails no longer work on older
versions of Xastir due to a change on the FindU data base ? Does not seem to
work here although it says its fetched the file .. Maybee its me again ,
sleeping at the wheel
On 9/21/07, Joe Veldhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I also took the one that James posted for the Geobase.ca road maps and
hacked at it a bit. My goal was to make them look the same as the Tiger road
maps, and that's pretty much what it does, although it doesn't correctly set
the
street
On 8/25/07, Steve Friis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The hope is that the El Paso, Local an URFMS digi's will lower the hops
they retransmit.
See my comment above. I was not thinking that supposition, but the way I
worded my first comment I can see how you would think that is what I meant.
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 network by watching how
a packet propagates and
On 8/19/07, Bernard Tyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, PHG circles - these are not valid for an APRS-IS connected
station, right? What should be displayed? Nothing I presume. It
should be shown by the symbol you choose?
PHG can be valid for a station connected to the APRS-IS if they are
On 7/19/07, Curt, WE7U [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Jason Winningham wrote:
On Jul 19, 2007, at 2:20 PM, James Ewen wrote:
Plus APRS is available for no fee to the amateur radio community, but
you need to talk to Bob Bruninga about licensing it for commercial
use.
I
On 7/19/07, Curt, WE7U [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've always heard that you can't protect a protocol, but IANAL.
If you have enough money you can protect whatever you want...
http://www.sbszoo.com/irlp/
When we put together the local IRLP link, I created a fun logo to
put on the box. Within
2) Moving mode. Me sees three possibilities here: A) fixed time
beaconing; B) Fixed distance beaconing; C) Speed based beaconing. I
would prefer speed based beaconing. Instead of having threshold points,
I would make the time change linear. Have an X-Y formula: X being speed;
Y being
So, having perused the SmartBeacon code for a while now, I have a
couple questions...
// Check to see whether we've sped up sufficiently for the
// posit_next_time variable to be too far out. If so, shorten
// that interval to match the current speed.
if ( (posit_next_time - curr_sec)
So, I'm back at it again... having problems with building Xastir on Cygwin.
Running update-xastir, I see there's a problem with permissions in
updating files
Merging differences between 1.11 and 1.12 into update-xastir
cvs [update aborted]: cannot rename file .new.update-xastir to
Here's an interesting situation... I have 1.9.1 running under Cygwin,
and of all the online maps in the /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/Online
directory, only TXRadar.geo and USRadar.geo show up in my Maps Chooser
dialog.
Any reason why the others in the directory don't show up?
James
VE6SRV
On 6/17/07, Earl Needham via Kubuntu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With my Xastir call set to KD5XB-11, I click on fetch... and fill in
the
data for KD5XB-11, for the last 120 hours. After several seconds' delay, the
window comes up telling me the track has been received, and then, right
On 3/1/07, Tom Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This looks suspiciously like a digi that's holding packets too long before
digipeating them.
My memory's kinda dim on the subject, but as I recall
it is stale packets being re-transmitted long after later posits are created.
If you're seeing the
I had Xastir running from a terminal window, and found out that it seg
faulted. I can't find a core dump though.
I also seem to be having problems with the shapefiles. It seemed to
work pretty fast when I first started playing with them. Now it can
take up to 2 or 3 minutes to render an image. I
I've got a theory. I ran the VM this weekend for several days. It never
crashed or bogged down as you describe, but when I used a bunch of shapefile
maps it did use a bit more memory than I thought it would have needed. I
betcha dollars to donuts what you're seeing is that xastir is starting
On 12/24/06, Tom Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've managed to have it die more than a couple times.
What dies? The whole virtual machine? Xastir?
Just the instance of Xastir that is running. There's no terminal
window to have a look at to see what error might have happened. I've
managed
Has anyone played much with the VMWare appliance version of Xastir?
I've managed to have it die more than a couple times. I also can't
seem to get it to use shapefiles. The help dialog shows that shapefile
support is built in, but after putting shapefiles into the map
directory, and reindexing I
On 12/2/06, Tom Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks to Jason Winningham, the Xastir virtual machine I made for use in
VMware player is now available for download
I was finally able to get a chance to download and install the Xastir
virtual machine...
Jason's server rocks! I was able to pull
Also... Do I need a password/account?
You can view the Wiki information without an account. To be able to
edit, you need to set up an account.
The account is quick and easy to set up. It is needed to keep bots
from wiping out Wikis... You can create an account and be able to edit
the Wiki
On 11/18/06, Jeff Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ive just this moment finished making my first map, discovered that
they have to be square in the process.
As Curt said... rectangular. If you make an image larger than the screen,
you can zoom out view the whole image. This however allows you
On 11/18/06, Curt Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How much creativity do I have available to me to create a custom map?
You can create your own maps in any of the formats that Xastir can
use. If using images, you can create a large one, tile it into
smaller pieces, and set up a .GEO file for
Festival could be a lot more useful if the proximity alerts didn't get fired
off by the movement of your station. For a fixed station wathcing people
drive by, it works pretty good. Every time the mobile station moves, it will
tell you the callsign and distance information for that station. I
That should reduce the number of newbie questions by a fair bit, and make
Xastir a little more user friendly.
Xastir is one of the most feature laden APRS programs out there, with the
BEST developer support available. The biggest detractor in my mind is the
difficulty in initially gettting the
On 11/9/06, Steve Friis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gerry Creager wrote:
I'll look today for a freely distributable world map, probably
shapefile format. Will that satisfy anyone? That much I should be
able to accomplish.
Check out the one listed on the old web page called Worldhi.map. It
I never have on the map grid, so I know
nothing of any grid bugs.
I always thought grid bugs were cool and deserved more screen time.
http://members.shaw.ca/jewen/gridbug.jpg
You really should look into fixing that before someone gets de-rezed!
James
VE6SRV
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