On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Joe Kirby wrote:
I am using soundmodem with an old scanner to receive local APRS traffic.
A receive-only setup.
I use my radio as a tracker.
A transmit-only setup for your car?
I have seen people send me messages, but I don't seem able to reply. Is aprs2.net bi-directional?
Yes.
Is there some other service which I should be using? Should I set the message to route through the local digi?
More than likely, if I understand your two setups correctly (I may not), Xastir thinks that you have a path to local RF via the scanner/soundmodem interface. Any messages people send to you on local RF will cause Xastir to try to respond on local RF, but you have a receive-only setup there. Xastir is trying, but won't succeed. If Xastir has an internet connection as well, it will still prefer that local RF interface. One way to do it would be to bring up another copy of Xastir that is ONLY on an internet interface, using a different SSID. From that one you should be able to message people because there is no RF interface attached to mess up the routing. Make sure you've put in a callpass entry on that interface as well. -- Curt, WE7U. <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer> APRS: Where it's at! <http://www.xastir.org> 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 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
