I just tried to send a message to the list from gmail, and the xastir
list server bounced it based on some DSBL excuse.
Is the xastir list server being overly aggressive, is DSBL broken, or
what?
-Jason
Jason Winningham
Computer Systems Engineer
There's a thread on the javAPRSsrv list about xastir's message retry
decay algorithm not playing well with the duplicate supression done by
both javAPRSsrv and the UIDIGI WIDEn-n. The issue has to do with the
retries being attempted before the duplicate suppression (10s on WIDEn-
n and 30s
On Nov 28, 2007, at 12:29 PM, Tom Russo wrote:
but if there were a way to search the archives for this list
plug
site:lists.xastir.org/pipermail/xastir searchphrase
into google.
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On Nov 19, 2007, at 10:36 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
A better recommendation would be to use the VMWare image inside
VMWare Player, assuming that the end-user machines are adequate to
run VMWare. That way you can run Linux inside VMWare and use either
the Xastir-LSB version or a custom compiled
On Oct 5, 2007, at 8:48 AM, I wrote:
http://roadnav.sourceforge.net/
Ah, this is more like it. At a glance: maps - so what? looks a lot
like xastir (maybe they do a bit better job rendering labels).
Keep looking: vector maps, rendered by the app, included routing,
vector maps based
On Oct 4, 2007, at 1:27 PM, William McKeehan wrote:
This would require Xastir having an http style
server that would serve up pages and would respond to certain
queries with XML
code.
Nice idea - this would be a reasonably easy interface for add-on tools.
This makes me think of the
On Oct 4, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Stephen - K1LNX wrote:
Maps, maps and more maps.
Ye gods, xastir already supports hundreds of formats. If there's an
area of xastir lacking, that ain't it. (:
We need the ability to use Google maps
Licensing issues could problematic, but I think someone is
On Oct 4, 2007, at 7:03 PM, Tate Belden wrote:
Is that even possible? To standardize on a generic 'SQL' so a
specific set of features offered by any one SQL server don't
dictate that server and only that server can be used?
I seem to recall that postgres has some specific GIS-type
On Sep 12, 2007, at 4:03 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
they use the FDTI chipset which is well supported in many
OS'es including Linux.
I haven't used the devices from Parallax, but I have settled on FTDI
as my favorite USB/232 chipset. I have several of these in various
forms and they do work
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On Aug 28, 2007, at 8:56 AM, William McKeehan wrote:
Has anyone thought about adding a scripting capability within Xastir?
We're on unix, so it's already there - it's called perl. (:
An example of the type of thing that I'm thinking about would be
keeping track
of how many runners have
On Aug 10, 2007, at 9:42 AM, Jim Tolbert wrote:
What is the status of the new generation of trackers ( Tracker2, I
think?). As I understand, the innovation is that they are
digipeaters as well. Correct?
Scott has a couple. The T2, currently in beta, seems to be very near
production
On Aug 20, 2007, at 4:18 PM, vic wrote:
Can the output from xastir to the terminal be stopped somehow with
a command or command string when xastir is started with the
option to put it into the background??
xastir 2/dev/null
which means redirect file descriptor 2 aka stderr to the file
On Aug 13, 2007, at 4:59 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
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
particular zoom level.
It's hard
On Aug 10, 2007, at 1:56 AM, Bernard Michael Tyers wrote:
Can I ask how you created/plotted the grey dotted rectangular box on
the map? I am guessing its the search area of that particular
aircraft?
That is the position ambiguity for that APRS station, which is in
fact an aircraft. For
wow - replicated on the first try. 100% repeatable on my iMac, OS X
10.4.10, xastir 1.9.1, CVS as of a few days ago.
no idea if it's an xastir thing, or an os X X11 thing.
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On Aug 9, 2007, at 12:20 PM, Stephen - K1LNX wrote:
but still leaves
me with one question, how to make it look better? I know I can
adjust the
fonts, background color etc, but what I am really after is to have
a color
scheme ala Google maps with colored roads etc.
Easy? Hard?
On Aug 6, 2007, at 6:24 AM, Eric H Christensen wrote:
Shouldn't there be a way to prioritize them? For example, the
Thunderstorm Warning should be trumped by the Tornado Warning.
The current xbm's that I put together would stack - the text was
placed so that text from one wouldn't go on
On Aug 3, 2007, at 7:22 PM, Jim Tolbert wrote:
OK... I made a really dumb move. I cleaned up and tossed the
installation notes. On that was the Administrators password.
Is there anyway to recover it?
Is there anyway to reset it?
OK, this is rough because I'm not much of a linux guy
On On Aug 2, 2007, at 8:31 AM, Jim Tolbert wrote:
_*The downside is that VMplayer only allows for one serial port.*_
This is wrong. I've used two, one for the radio and one for the GPS.
The xastir vm may only have one serial port _configured_ out of the
box (er, zip file?), but it's
On Jul 24, 2007, at 9:36 AM, Chip G. wrote:
/usr/bin/ld: table of contents for archive: /usr/local/lib/
libgeotiff.a is out of date; rerun ranlib
In this case the error message tells you what to do (but it isn't all
that clear if you haven't heard of the ranlib command).
sudo ranlib
On Jul 19, 2007, at 9:19 AM, Jim Tolbert wrote:
Does anyone know, can I change colors and symbols and show labels now,
You are now ready for the wonderful world of dbfawk writing. Wiki
instructions at
http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:DBFAWK
The original instructions I used:
On Jul 8, 2007, at 7:12 PM, Chip G. wrote:
is it certain to he the driver?
Nope. I was getting pretty wound up trying to solve a similar
problem. It eventually occurred to me that my faithful Keyspan
device might actually be dead. It was.
-Jason
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On Jul 6, 2007, at 4:10 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
Or create new GNIS files somehow?
Well, you're one of the developers, so you tell me if it makes more
sense to:
- create new GNIS files in the old format with new data (assuming
that's possible)
- re-code so that xastir understands the
On Jul 6, 2007, at 5:33 PM, Reuven Z Gevaryahu wrote:
I had tried doing this a few months back, and noticed that the
geocoder
scripts gave many errors,
There were some errors (unexpected version code) that I think were
related to having a newer version of the TIGER data than the script
On Jul 2, 2007, at 9:34 PM, Curt Mills wrote:
Note: I'm not a Mac user, but _am_ a Unix and Linux user/SysAdmin,
me too...
so I'm not sure how fragile a Mac is these days. I would think not
very fragile...
nope, not at all. I personally rank it just below solaris and above
linux in
On Jul 1, 2007, at 7:59 AM, Richard Polivka, N6NKO wrote:
I have just now created a vertical 1/2 wave dipole. I tune it with
an MFJ box.
A roll-up J-pole is slightly more complex to build (but not much!)
and doesn't need a tuner. A J-pole has noticeably more gain than a
dipole, too.
On Jul 1, 2007, at 4:23 PM, Ray Wells wrote:
Given that a J-pole is only a dipole with an alternative feed
method (i.e. at the end rather than the centre), I have to wonder
where this gain comes from.
beats me, but when we fly 'em on the balloons, the J-pole has a
better range. Could
On Jun 25, 2007, at 7:25 PM, Jim Tolbert wrote:
Garmin Rinos within 5 miles of the search incident command would be
a workable alternative.
This seems pretty optimistic. I don't know about the Rinos, but in
my very limited experience with FRS radios 5mi seems to be a bit much
for them,
On Jun 26, 2007, at 4:47 PM, Jim Tolbert wrote:
Is the general consensus that I should wait until we can afford
the Kenwood / GPS unit system or go now with one of the Rino options.
That sort of depends on your situation: is something better than
nothing? Sure the Rino FRS doesn't have
On Jun 25, 2007, at 4:57 PM, Tom Russo wrote:
If your ECW images are 24-bit color, you'll also have to convert to
8-bit
for geotiff (because nobody's written the 24-bit geotiff code yet).
I've done that for some color DOQQs in my area.
Just wondering if there would be a performance hit
On Jun 17, 2007, at 2:42 PM, Earl Needham wrote:
Ah -- maybe I misunderstood. I thought the question was
whether I had moved while downloading the track. The track should
have actually shown my movement of perhaps 2000 miles.
well, a download only gets packets that made it to an
On May 23, 2007, at 10:21 AM, Earl Needham via Kubuntu wrote:
I can't seem to get Xastir
to transmit my position. I'm runnign without a TNC, via TCP/IP
all of the following must be true:
- interface configuration must allow transmitting
- IS interface must have correct password (generated
On May 16, 2007, at 6:03 PM, Craig Anderson wrote:
That APRS channel
could be co-resident with a TCP/IP over AX.25 KISS
channel that I suppose could really be carrying the
CAD objects.
TCP/IP is a connected mode point to point protocol, not really
suitable for one-to-many communications.
good morning/afternoon/evening all,
I'm still dealing with xastir losing the serial port at times. (a
reminder of my issue, the actual fault is with USB problems, not with
xastir.)
I think maybe xastir could be a bit smarter about recovery, and an
automatic retry for devices (like server
On May 1, 2007, at 10:30 PM, Tom Russo wrote:
The main page should probably have at least a confirm-by-email
registration
process and require registration for commenting.
Unfortunately the vandals have that automated, too...
-Jason
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Doesn't Dana (N1OZF?) have a double-clickable install for Mac OS?
It's an older version (1.8.0 or thereabouts) but it's fine for trying
out xastir.
I suggest bringing questions to the entire list - even if one person
is primarily answering, it gives others a chance to point out things
anyone noticed the comments under stable version ... is out on
www.xastir.org? lotsa wikispam.
http://www.xastir.org/article.php?story=20061103223112116#comments
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Does xastir send waypoints corresponding to heard stations to an
attached GPS like the D7/D700 do?
I nearly always use xastir with a GPS engine or without a GPS, so I
can't remember...
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On Apr 27, 2007, at 2:24 PM, Bernard Michael Tyers wrote:
Ok, so I connected my GPS, found it was sdevice:
/dev/tty.KeySerial1
Enabled it in Interfaces menu, and Xastir hung saying waiting for
GPS. So I guess I gotta go build gpsd?!
no, just put the GPS on that port and configure a GPS
On Apr 25, 2007, at 5:52 AM, gdw wrote:
Does anyone by chance have the older gnis files for SC, NC and GA?
I am
setting up a machine for the Columbia, SC Weather Service and have
discovered that the current gnis files from the .gov site don't work.
those three are at
On Apr 17, 2007, at 1:58 PM, Troy M. Campbell wrote:
I'd like to display the label of a county (for example) depending
on the
zoom level.
Is there a way to do this? I can't figure out the expression for it.
I wanted to display borders in a different line style based on zoom
level,
If I remember correctly, if your TNC isn't KISS, xastir can't use it
to digipeat. Xastir's digi function is a bit limited, and not really
intended to take the place of a full-up digipeater.
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On Apr 11, 2007, at 11:39 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
I haven't tried the latest Shapefile downloads so I don't know if
the distributed dbfawk files work properly with them. Who's tried
this?
I think I have. The latest use the FIPS code instead of county for
the filename, right?
-Jason
Had a few problems with my APRS rig on this weekend's balloon chase.
All have been attributed to pilot error and yet another faulty Belkin
USB hub (which I guess could also be considered pilot error, since
it's the third time I've been bitten by a Belkin hub, but we won't go
there).
On Apr 3, 2007, at 10:27 AM, Peter Maxfield wrote:
Is /dev/ttyS3 the equivalent of com4?
only if it's a real com port. For a USB device, look at /dev/
ttyUSBx, where x is 0 for the first rs232/usb device enumerated, 1
for the second, etc.
I'm assuming you are running linux native and
On Mar 29, 2007, at 8:46 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
This might muck with the TOCALL a bit. Right now we're sending
APX185. We'd need to send APX110 which would appear to be going
backwards in our revisions.
do it in hex?
APX1A0
-Jason
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On Mar 26, 2007, at 8:46 PM, Troy M. Campbell wrote:
I _could_ get a file with population by FIPS code
and merge it into a GNIS set using XASTIR's current file format,
If you're gonna do that, why not just make it a shapefile and create
a dbfawk, so the sufficiently interested user can
On Mar 27, 2007, at 7:07 AM, Jason Winningham wrote:
I think in the contrib directory
That was vague; I should have said in the _shapelib_ contrib
directory (as opposed to the xastir contrib directory).
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On Mar 9, 2007, at 4:27 PM, I wrote:
I'm having issues running xastir in a VMware vm that I suspect are
virtual machine-host machine issues.
I've got everything loaded and going, including handing control of
a USB/rs232 adapter to the guest OS. The extremely strange (and
frustrating)
I've been thinking about ways to simplify map configuration, and an
idea that just hit me was to combine TIGER shapefiles from multiple
counties to make one huge shapefile, reducing the set to three or
four per state. I know I'm gonna take a hit the first time I read a
big shapefile, but
I'm having issues running xastir in a VMware vm that I suspect are
virtual machine-host machine issues.
I've got everything loaded and going, including handing control of a
USB/rs232 adapter to the guest OS. The extremely strange (and
frustrating) thing is that the guest machine can write
On Mar 4, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Stephen Brown Jr wrote:
I also looked at the permissions
for the pty port:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 2, 0 2007-02-24 19:51 /dev/ptyp0
I think these things come in pairs - ptypX and ttypX. If it's a
permission problem, you may need to check/change both.
-Jason
On Mar 1, 2007, at 6:27 AM, William M. Bickley wrote:
I can see either a weather radar or a Tigermap just fine, but I
can't figure
out how to display both at the same time. When I choose both, I
only see
the Tigermap. What's the trick?
map - map chooser - properties
make sure the
On Feb 28, 2007, at 1:42 PM, William McKeehan wrote:
I
think Bob may have a good idea with the APRStt thing. I can see
several
instances where it would be nice to have someone with an HT enter
some data
quickly just by entering touch tones.
The biggest hitch I see is that you're typing
I just downloaded the lot of 'em (I2 between me and Gerry :) and took
a quick look.
Most files extract into a subdirectory called xlate. A few extract
into the current directory.
Files have the same signature, so existing dbfawks work.
FIPS coded filenames aren't too friendly, but the
On Feb 19, 2007, at 3:05 PM, Jason Winningham wrote:
(except for the missing polygons).
I should clarify: the polygon data is generated via a different
method, and results in a separate shapelib. Again, there is nothing
wrong with the shapefiles you generated.
-Jason
kg4wsv
If y'all keep talking I'm gonna have to learn how to do a multihead
sunray configuration just so I can put 30 of 'em on one virtual X
display. Let's see, 6 monitors wide by 5 tall running at 1900x1200
resolution. What would xastir look like at 11400 x 6000 resolution?
(:
-Jason
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On Feb 5, 2007, at 11:00 AM, Craig Anderson wrote:
I want to be
able to pick up the APRS packets at those hill-top
radios but display them back in the EOC.
If you're talking about an RF solution, you just described a digi...
What should run on the hill-top computer? Is there
a simple
On Feb 3, 2007, at 3:49 PM, Tom Russo wrote:
This is by no means an inexpensive alternative to a USB-Serial
dongle,
No kidding. $60 per serial connection, plus one for your laptop if
it isn't built in.
What I can't figure out is why a bluetooth adapter for the computer
can be had for
If you're talking about the online TIGERmaps, the TIGER server
frequently gets bogged down. You may want to try increasing the
timeout (which I think is located in the .geo file).
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On Dec 26, 2006, at 6:14 AM, Carl Makin wrote:
Source code to a linux mkiss daemon that should be pretty easy to
make work without the linux ax25 code is reachable via the
radio.linux.org.au site;
http://radio.linux.org.au/pkgdetail.phtml?
sectpat=Allordpat=descpat=pkgid=93
Thanks.
On Dec 20, 2006, at 9:27 PM, Tom Russo wrote:
The one that comes with FreeBSD is, I believe, version 1.8.5 or
thereabouts.
My bet is that Mac OS X's is probably of a similar vintage.
sounds right, could be even older. db.h says
* @(#)db.h8.7 (Berkeley) 6/16/94
* $FreeBSD:
Just out of curiosity, is there some reason we're not using the DB
that comes with Mac OS X?
Curt, if you need an account on an OS X machine I can probably
arrange it (I assume you can SSH in and to the X11 forwarding thing).
-Jason
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On Dec 18, 2006, at 9:30 PM, James Ewen wrote:
Jason's server rocks! I was able to pull down the file at an average
of 3.5 Mbps, with peaks to 4.5 Mbps. If I were on a fast connection, I
wonder what I could have done!
Glad to hear it - I can't remember the last time I heard something
On Dec 18, 2006, at 5:28 PM, Tom Russo wrote:
Time to turn it on by default?
yep. I've been ready for a while now.
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On Dec 15, 2006, at 10:19 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
Where is GraphicsMagick installed on that system? In particular
what are the full paths to these files?
on Mac OS X, depends on if fink, darwinports, or standard install is
used. The base dir will be one of
/sw
/opt
/usr/local
-Jason
On Dec 15, 2006, at 10:35 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
It also sounds like the values requested by NOAA are different than
the APRS spec dictates we transmit.
In this case, should we lobby to have the APRS spec changed to meet
NOAA standards?
-Jason
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Is this different than the python scripts, whose output we've been
using for a few years now?
-Jason
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On Dec 13, 2006, at 9:43 AM, Tom Russo wrote:
Having never used TGR2SHP, I don't know if there's a clear
advantage to
switching tools. The process is sufficiently complex that there
are things
that are missed by the ogr2ogr/Xastir-tigerpoly.py method, so maybe
there
is a good reason to
On Nov 19, 2006, at 10:51 AM, Curt Mills wrote:
Unfortunately I think most of the trackers out there
aren't set up to transmit more often than once per minute using
timeslotting.
I fly opentrackers on balloons with timeslotting and intervals of 20s
or 30s. Works just fine.
-Jason
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On Nov 18, 2006, at 5:52 PM, James Ewen wrote:
I'm not sure if the OpenTracker is able to sync to the GPS time
embedded in the NMEA strings or not.
it does. A timeslot every other second is no sweat. If your packets
and TXdelay are short you can probably get one a second.
-Jason
On Nov 18, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Jeff Mohler wrote:
Not sure what to do with timing yet, most of the time we'll have no
more than 5 vehicles to track, at Mid Ohio I could have up to 12-15.
I'll have to play with the options in the opentracker on the sending
side, to see how I can most
On Nov 10, 2006, at 4:06 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
Anyone tried it on MacOSX yet?
OK, second try is going better after RTFM. Did a cvs -d, got the
source code but the same results from configure. Ran bootstrap.sh
before running configure and it was happier. configure made the
right
On Nov 10, 2006, at 4:06 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
Anyone tried it on MacOSX yet?
Yep, just CVSed the latest. no joy.
Started with a clean /usr/local, installed openmotif, pcre and proj.
imac:/usr/local/source/xastir jdw$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install
On Nov 11, 2006, at 8:50 PM, Jason Winningham wrote:
Yep, just CVSed the latest. no joy.
never mind, I'm an idiot. forgot the -d. Trying again.
-Jason
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On Nov 9, 2006, at 4:09 PM, Jeremy Utley wrote:
With most web forum software, you can easily set it to notify you of
responses to your inquiry, and never go back there until someone
responds to your inquiry. Then, once you have your answer, you never
*have* to go back again.
so, no one goes
As best I can tell the first image on www.xastir.org is 536kb (I know
it takes a while to load). That's pretty hefty.
On top of that, it doesn't show anything about xastir.
$0.02
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On Nov 9, 2006, at 7:10 PM, Stephen Brown Jr wrote:
Well I managed to download the shapefiles for my county based off
of the
Tiger map data from
ftp://aprs.tamu.edu/pub/Xastir/Maps/TIGER/xastir.tamu.edu/2004/
counties/TN/
That's a good start.
Reading over this page
On Oct 23, 2006, at 11:58 PM, Ray Wells wrote:
a separate interface declared for each instance?
Yep, a separate interface for each APRS-IS server. works fine.
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I'm thinking about ways to simplify the connection of multiple
devices (TNCs, GPS, etc) - the old one (or no) serial port and 5
devices scenario.
Does xastir have full multiport KISS support _without_ ax.25 kernel
support? Not all of us run linux...
It would be feasible to use a
On Oct 23, 2006, at 7:55 PM, Robbie, wa9inf wrote:
Has this been touched on before? NO labels on any of the sliders
for what the slider is setting the time for?
seems like this was a motif issue - lesstif vs. openmotif, I can't
remember which one is more desirable...
-Jason
kg4wsv
On Oct 4, 2006, at 2:25 PM, Kyle Kienapfel wrote:
I just used a DBF Viewer 2000 from this site to cut a 300mb dbf file
down to about 50.
I played with this a bit using the shapelib tools on some files (not
the TIGER shape files, but can't remember which ones). For the file
I was looking
On Sep 29, 2006, at 6:33 AM, Bennett, Bruce wrote:
What are folks feelings about an xastir entry in wikipedia?
Off hand, I'd say it would only dilute the useful information.
There's already an APRS wiki (http://info.aprs.net) and I understand
the xastir project home page just got a wiki
On Sep 22, 2006, at 6:21 AM, Bennett, Bruce wrote:
Another choice? Yeah, in the past I have used a PCI serial port card
w/4
ports... $$
Which is fine for a desktop, not so practical for a laptop. ): Yeah,
I know there are PCMCIA solutions, too.
The SI Labs based devices can actually be
On Sep 21, 2006, at 12:32 PM, Bennett, Bruce wrote:
Now: another question - since true serial ports are scarce, are
USB-to-serial converters the way to go??
is there another choice?
stay away from Belkin adapters. I've had good luck with Keyspan, and
so far one I've played with that's
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