[Xastir-Dev] Re: [Xastir] view->mobile stations

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Henk de Groot wrote:

> Are those posted by PA3BNX? He has some kind of APRS clock running so he
> regulary post a clock object. He also cancels the old clock objects so
> there should be only one clock...
>
> It doesn't work wonderfully, although the old clocks are cancelled they are
> still shown in for example pocketAPRS, so the first entries are filled with
> a lot of useless cancelled objects. I think when an object is cancelled it
> should vanish. If you have a lot of these clock objects in Xastir then
> somehow the cancelation of the old clock object is not honored, or not fed
> to APRS-IS (why are these objects on APRS-IS in the first place...)...

Another thing I've noticed is that UI-View only sends two
cancellation messages for a killed object.  It's possible that some
of the clock objects are making it in, but the killed packets are
sometimes not making it to APRS-IS.

The packets should probably have NOGATE or RFONLY in them somewhere,
to keep them off the APRS-IS.

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