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 tried it while driving one day, and I had the audio queued up for 1/2 an hour because I drove past 2 fixed stations within the alert proximity. I was 40 miles down the road by the time that Xastir stopped telling me that VE6*** was 5 miles away. (That can get the XYL a little upset!)
Xastir needs to ignore movement updates of itself for creating audio alerts. At least it needs to ignore most of them, perhaps firing off an alert every 1/2 mile or so. This could be a user configurable parameter. It should always fire off an audio alert when remote stations send APRS position updates, but hold off due to it's own position updates. James VE6SRV _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
