On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Cool! I'll give it a shot when I get a chance (got some pretty large 'honey-dos'). We're also going to be going over to E WA this weekend, look for KD7ULH-9.
Sure... Do you want to be seen as "GeekBoy" or "Honey I Shot the Kids" as you travel? You know tactical calls have to be _some_ fun to test with, right? How about "Microsoft Rules!" as a tactical call? That might be worth trying once.
I might also run the cable from her Nuvi and try sending some messages - as I read this, I would just send "KD7ULH Car" to TACTICAL and all of the Xastir boxes out there would pick it up, right?
Yea, but then I could change it back to GeekBoy right away again...
Can/would Xastir respond to that if it was iGated (rather than received direct)?
Yes. It doesn't care how it gets it as long as it comes in via APRS message format.
And I guess the NEXT logical question would be "If I send a message FROM Xastir to a station that's only been iGated to me, will Xastir (and APRS in general) take that from the Internet and put it back out on the air?"
Probably not, unless the igates were configured to send TACTICAL messages to local RF. I finished it at almost 2am this morning, and it's just the initial implementation of the Tactical decoding. I didn't do anything like a "Send All Tactical->RF" yet which preformats a message to TACTICAL, nor have I implemented a ToggleButton to disable tactical callsign display (reverting back to regular callsigns) with a default of "disable". I plan to do both, and of course people have suggested other GUI attachments already as well. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev
