[Xastir-dev] Re: Handicapped VS Mobile satellite...

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Bob Bruninga wrote:

> SO, although POST-SPEC code seems to dominate todays activity, I doubt
> that anyone is using the mobile satellite ICON (I have never seen in on
> any of the satelltie downlinks, and it was due to my constant satellite
> mobile activity that I proposed it) and no one used it as a Wheelchair
> either.
>
> But anything prior to 2000 probably did use the Wheelchair and probably
> has lots of saved files in that format, then the least painful change to
> me seems to be to change the spec to fix the mistake...  IE, move mobile
> Satellite to a new slot, and change the spec so that /( is the
> Wheelchair... (chosen becaue it kinda looks like one)...

It isn't particularly hard to switch symbols in a saved history
file.  Oh well.

Define painful.  In this case, least painful entails making the
fewest APRS clients make a change.  It's not that critically
important which symbol goes in which slot as long as all of the
client software agrees.

I'm willing to go along with what you suggest above, provided that
you do a comparison right away between your APRSdos icons and the
spec+errata.  If there are other differences, let's take care of
them now rather than later.  One-time fix to get everybody on the
same page.  If this comparison could be done within a few days I'll
do my best to get any changes into our new version.

If others agree with the "/(" wheelchair icon, pick a new slot for
the satellite ground station, unless we feel its unneeded/
underutilized and can just drop that symbol from the chart.

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