Re: [Xastir] Shapefile Problem

2008-11-21 Thread Ray Wells
to quite a few others down this way. Thanks for your help. Ray vk2tv Tom Russo wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 06:07:47PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > >> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Ray Wells

[Xastir] Shapefile Problem

2008-11-21 Thread Ray Wells
In the last few days weather warnings have been made available for aprs in Australia. Those of us running xastir have encountered a common problem in that the warning area is not defined and coloured (filled) on the display. The object icon is displayed. If auto-fill is enabled in Map Propertie

[Xastir] Shapefile Problem

2008-11-21 Thread Ray Wells
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 2:47 AM, Ray Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Those of us running xastir have encountered a common problem in that the > > warning area is not defined and coloured (filled) on the display. The > > object icon is displayed. If auto-fill is e

Re: [Xastir] New Installation Notes / HowTo for Ubuntu 8.10 & 8.04

2008-11-17 Thread Ray Wells
roger g6ckr wrote: > On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 18:36 +, roger g6ckr wrote: > > > >> OK that makes me feel a bit better. >> I probably did nothing wrong then ;-) >> I also noticed the note re festival which I will try in a while. >> I'll still look at a clean 8.10 test but the time scale can slip

Re: [Xastir] [Fwd: Re: [linuxham] Xastir]

2008-11-15 Thread Ray Wells
Tom Russo wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:46:56AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > >> On 11/15/08, Tom Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:42:40PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron >>> c

Re: [Xastir] Server Port

2008-10-18 Thread Ray Wells
Curt, WE7U wrote: On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Ray Wells wrote: The first time I remotely connect to the server it works but if I disconnect and then reconnect the server is not available. Disabling and then enabling the server port makes it available again until the remote program disconnects

Re: [Xastir] Server Port

2008-10-18 Thread Ray Wells
Curt, WE7U wrote: On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Ray Wells wrote: The first time I remotely connect to the server it works but if I disconnect and then reconnect the server is not available. Disabling and then enabling the server port makes it available again until the remote program disconnects

[Xastir] Server Port

2008-10-18 Thread Ray Wells
Hi All, I'm running xastir v1.9.3 compiled with everything on Debian v4.0. I occasionally connect to xastir over my LAN with either UIView or xastir, using the server port. The first time I remotely connect to the server it works but if I disconnect and then reconnect the server is not avail

Re: [Xastir] remote use from a windows computer

2008-10-01 Thread Ray Wells
Harold Hartley wrote: I'm just wondering if I ran xastir on my linux box, can I connect to my linux box with my windows laptop over wireless network and see the graphics on my laptop like I would if I was sitting in front of my linux box. I'm curious about this as my linux box is not within m

Re: [Xastir] Digipeating question.

2008-09-22 Thread Ray Wells
Rob Compton wrote: If I released this KISS TNC, I could throw a UI-DIGI eprom in it, and use it for a remote site relay. I have a DRSI, a PC-120, a Baycom USCC, and a Thorcom RLC200 all in 'stock'. I've used SCC cards for my AX25 BBS's in the past, and they are a nice way of doing it. The more I

Re: [Xastir] Lockups on a fresh system

2008-06-25 Thread Ray Wells
Alex Carver wrote: --- 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 start

Re: [Xastir] Lockups on a fresh system

2008-06-25 Thread Ray Wells
Alex Carver wrote: --- On Tue, 6/10/08, Ray Wells wrote: From: Ray Wells Subject: Re: [Xastir] Lockups on a fresh system To: "Alex Carver" Cc: xastir@xastir.org Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 12:38 AM Alex Carver wrote: Alex, I may be off target here but have you run out of

Re: [Xastir] Lockups on a fresh system

2008-06-09 Thread Ray Wells
Alex Carver wrote: --- On Tue, 6/10/08, Ray Wells wrote: From: Ray Wells Subject: Re: [Xastir] Lockups on a fresh system To: "Alex Carver" Cc: xastir@xastir.org Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 12:38 AM Alex Carver wrote: Alex, I may be off target here but have you run out of

Re: [Xastir] Lockups on a fresh system

2008-06-09 Thread Ray Wells
Alex Carver wrote: --- 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

Re: [Xastir] Lockups on a fresh system

2008-06-08 Thread Ray Wells
Alex Carver wrote: --- 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 Lesst

Re: [Xastir] Lockups on a fresh system

2008-06-08 Thread Ray Wells
Alex Carver wrote: --- 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

Re: [Xastir] Xastir and Baycom modem

2008-05-12 Thread Ray Wells
This off topic, but then again it isn't. I'm working with Wes on this one but also configured a Baycom modem on a machine here this afternoon to make certain the process works. I have to say that not a single document adequately covered setting up a Baycom modem under Linux. This is what I'

Re: [Xastir] Xastir and Baycom modem

2008-05-11 Thread Ray Wells
Wes Hartman - KC5FGK wrote: Can someone point me to a good explanation of how to get Xastir and a Tigertronics BP-1 modem working together? Thanks in advance, Wes, KC5FGK ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin

Re: [Xastir] digipeater coverage plots

2008-05-11 Thread Ray Wells
SPLAT! is able to plot coverage of multiple transmitter sites, with each plot a different colour. Overlap areas are in yet different colours again. Ray vk2tv David Aitcheson wrote: Dick, I can wholeheartedly endorse the us of SPLAT as Alex Carver has suggested. Take a serious look at the SP

Re: [Xastir] Paccomm tnc-320

2008-05-10 Thread Ray Wells
David wrote: Hi All...im using the tnc-320 with Xastir under Kubuntu 8.04 Hardy and its working quite well however it still has the origional vers 116D4 eprom in itdoes anyone know where i could get a vers 4 or 5 eprom from.yep i know thaats back in about 1979...can but try 73 David

Re: [Fwd: [Xastir] No xastir executable]

2008-02-22 Thread Ray Wells
FWIW, I followed the Xastir wiki for a recent new installation on Debian v4.0. From memory there was one file that didn't align with the wiki - I wish I'd documented what I did - but xastir compiled and ran with everything compiled in, on the first attempt. So, for anyone running raw Debian, th

Re: [Xastir] Xastir LSB with Ubuntu ?

2008-02-13 Thread Ray Wells
Curt, WE7U wrote: On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Tony Hunt wrote: Since that original post I installed KDE and made this Ubuntu install with a KDE option. Not an entirely uncommon manuver.. Yea, it's called Kubuntu I think. Kubuntu installs KDE by default, Ubuntu installs Gnome. Debian stil

Re: [Xastir] Gating WX from IP to RF

2007-12-03 Thread Ray Wells
Mike, Have you enabled RF>Internet & Internet>RF in BOTH Station/Configure Defaults and in the radio port configs? Ray vk2tv Mike Long (N3QD) wrote: I followed the directions in the README exactly, and it's not working. I even removed the .txt extension. The log shows RF->NET but none

[Xastir] Off topic?

2007-08-13 Thread Ray Wells
I'm sending this here in the hope that someone can point me towards a mailing list to deal with my problem. I'm using the radio propagation program, Splat! and I have one annoying problem. If I plot a point-to-point link the underlying topographic information shows up as grey scale. However,

Re: [Xastir] Xastir's in ADEPT

2007-07-03 Thread Ray Wells
Lee Bengston wrote: Gee, I just found Xastir listed in the Adept package manager. I could have installed with Adept and not worried about compiling and everything else! Yes, but you would be stuck on XASTIR 1.84 (assuming you are on Kubuntu 7.04). If you are using Kubuntu 6.10, then Adept w

Re: [Xastir] Portable Digipeater Antenna?

2007-07-01 Thread Ray Wells
Jason Winningham wrote: 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

Re: [Xastir] Portable Digipeater Antenna?

2007-07-01 Thread Ray Wells
Jason Winningham wrote: 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 gai

Re: [Xastir] Radar display

2007-06-29 Thread Ray Wells
William McKeehan wrote: It looks like ImageMagick is not available for Debian (via apt-get anyway) unless I'm overlooking it somewhere - if so, someone point me to the package that I need to get. I'll try building ImageMagick from source and see how that works. Thanks for the suggestion. I

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2007-06-25 Thread Ray Wells
Curt, WE7U wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Ray Wells wrote: I've just recompiled gdal to include ecw support but I can't figure out how ecw format maps invoked in xastir? gdalinfo --formats now reports ecw support so it would seem that part of proceedings is now up to scratch.

[Xastir] Maps

2007-06-25 Thread Ray Wells
I've just recompiled gdal to include ecw support but I can't figure out how ecw format maps invoked in xastir? gdalinfo --formats now reports ecw support so it would seem that part of proceedings is now up to scratch. Any advice gratefully received. Ray vk2tv _

Re: [Xastir] No Maps

2007-06-15 Thread Ray Wells
Lee Bengston wrote: Quick question on the maps. Is it just your gif and jpg maps that do not display, i.e. other maps such as the online tiger maps display OK? Lee - K5DAT Murphy, TX ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/c

Re: [Xastir] No Maps

2007-06-15 Thread Ray Wells
Curt, WE7U wrote: On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Ray Wells wrote: I've had a long standing problem with no maps in xastir and I almost drove Curt to insanity with my problem. Define "almost"... By any chance have you tried the LSB version of Xastir to see if it runs ok too?

[Xastir] No Maps

2007-06-15 Thread Ray Wells
I've had a long standing problem with no maps in xastir and I almost drove Curt to insanity with my problem. The problem started with a Debian upgrade some time ago but I don't recall just which upgrade it was, not that that's important at this stage because I've moved on. I'm building up a

Re: [Xastir] No Maps .... Still

2007-03-29 Thread Ray Wells
Curt, WE7U wrote: On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Ray Wells wrote: After much drama I finally found a deb package for Graphicsmagick and it appears to be working - gm display brings up the logo. However, when I run configure for xastir (1.8.5) it complains it can't find GraphicsMagick-configure

[Xastir] No Maps .... Still

2007-03-26 Thread Ray Wells
A while back I was enquiring about how to get my maps working using Imagemagick. After much drama I finally found a deb package for Graphicsmagick and it appears to be working - gm display brings up the logo. However, when I run configure for xastir (1.8.5) it complains it can't find Graphic

Re: [Xastir] Geotiff missing...???

2007-02-28 Thread Ray Wells
Richard Polivka wrote: Personally, I run GraphicsMagick instead of ImageMagick. I find that there is less loading on my system and the reliability is better. I am running FC6. 73 from 807, Richard, N6NKO --- Ray Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: larry wrote: I have

Re: [Xastir] Geotiff missing...???

2007-02-28 Thread Ray Wells
larry wrote: I have xastir version 1.8.5 installed, but my problem is I am not getting any maps to show up on the screen...Could it be that I am missing the file Geotiff, if so where can I get it for Ubuntu 6.10...??? I have compiled in so far, everything except for that file, anyone out the

Re: [Xastir] Re: Which distrro are you using

2007-02-26 Thread Ray Wells
Kevin Hogan wrote: Fedora Core 5 with Xastir 1.8.2 Trying to get Debian 3.1r0 (sarge) with ax25 for multi port TNC. No luck on mkiss set up yet. Is anyone running Xastir with ax25? Kevin ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xas

Re: [Xastir] Re: Which distrro are you using

2007-02-26 Thread Ray Wells
Tom ve7did wrote: I use it... but not a multiport tnc Perhaps the following may not be applicable for multiport I use Slackware Is ax25 compiled in your kernel or using modules? Do you have your /etc/ax25/axports file set up? # /etc/ax25/axports # # The format of this file is: # name callsign

Re: [Xastir] Re: Which distrro are you using

2007-02-26 Thread Ray Wells
Kevin Hogan wrote: Fedora Core 5 with Xastir 1.8.2 Trying to get Debian 3.1r0 (sarge) with ax25 for multi port TNC. No luck on mkiss set up yet. Is anyone running Xastir with ax25? Kevin ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xas

Re: [Xastir] TNC

2007-02-23 Thread Ray Wells
Curt, WE7U wrote: On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Ray Wells wrote: Has anyone on this list had anything to do with a PK90 TNC? Afriend has just acquired one and is looking for info, latest EPROM images, how to get it into and out of KISS, etc. I have several PK-88's plus a couple of ma

[Xastir] TNC

2007-02-22 Thread Ray Wells
Has anyone on this list had anything to do with a PK90 TNC? Afriend has just acquired one and is looking for info, latest EPROM images, how to get it into and out of KISS, etc. Ray vk2tv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.or

Re: [Xastir] Which distrro are you using

2007-02-17 Thread Ray Wells
David Flood wrote: Right now I have a mix of SUSE 10.0 and 10.1 but due to their deal with the devil, I've been trying other distributions. And have yet to find one that either doesn't require you to have a GHz machine or so much ram and HD space that you might as well have bought a new machine

Re: [Xastir] Which distrro are you using

2007-02-17 Thread Ray Wells
KC7ZRU wrote: Ray Wells wrote: My only foray into Redhat was a disaster to install. Made me realise how good Debian is. Ray vk2tv Similar to my experiences with Debian - only inverted. What a freak'n nightmare experience that was! Within hours of the attempt I was back to F

Re: [Xastir] Which distrro are you using

2007-02-17 Thread Ray Wells
Richard, N6NKO wrote: Gladly will tell you... Was running Slack 11 on all boxes until I needed Audacity to do vinyl-to-CD transcriptions. Slack does not have Gnome as resident so I am running Fedora 6 on all boxes. 73 from 807, Richard, N6NKO James Jolin wrote: I am taking a poll. Whi

Re: [Xastir] Multiple Servers

2006-10-24 Thread Ray Wells
uite often, and I want to cover that possibility. Ray vk2tv Jason Winningham wrote: 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. w

[Xastir] Multiple Servers

2006-10-23 Thread Ray Wells
How does one provide for multiple internet servers in Xastir? Can multiple addresses be specified, with a delimiter, on the one line or is a separate interface declared for each instance? I can't seem to find clarification of this in the doc or help files. Ray vk2tv __

Re: [Xastir] Editing the Serial Kiss TNC startup and stop

2006-10-10 Thread Ray Wells
Bob Nielsen wrote: On Oct 10, 2006, at 8:35 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote: None of the developers have felt the need (so far) to have configurable files to set up a TNC for KISS/take it back out of KISS mode when starting/stopping interfaces. If they had the code would have been written by now. Mos

Re: [Xastir] Baycom and xastir?

2006-09-25 Thread Ray Wells
Curt, WE7U wrote: On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Art wrote: Is there anyway for me to use my old Baycom BP-1 for APRS with xastir software? I have the ability to disable the power management in my RS-232 ports, which is a problem on some PC's. Have XP and 3 GHz processor. If that's one of th