[Xastir-dev] Tactical Calls: Let's play

[John Ronan]

>
> 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.
>
Just downloaded latest CVS now.. running it connected to the APRS-IS  
from where I am.. won't have RF until the weekend.  Any way I could  
help test from here?

Cheers
de John
EI7IG
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