[Xastir] Xastir on multibands

[Brian Heaton]

Is this something that we want within Xastir or would it be better off
in the aprsdigi package that is part of the AX25 base on linux?  

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On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 19:50, Jack Twilley wrote:
> Curt> The next order of business might be to support selective one-way
> Curt> or two-way gating of other packets, like posits.  This could be
> Curt> used to support a satellite-gateway or alternate APRS frequency
> Curt> (like for ballooning?).
> 
> Or for any time when a small number of amateurs need to communicate
> reliably and actively and a large number of amateurs are interested in
> the highlights of the operation.
> 
> Curt> I'm interested in what people might come up with for
> Curt> applications, and what kind of control/support we might need to
> Curt> add to Xastir to accomplish it.
> 
> Imagine a road race, like the recent "Baker to Vegas" contest.  An
> alternate frequency could carry all the race-related data, and an
> Xastir station could forward along only those bits that would be
> interesting to the folks who listen to 144.39 all the time -- things
> like who's in first place and where they are.
> 
> Another case would be a disaster situation where a locality might have
> lots of data going back and forth (which shelter has room for this
> school-bus of evacuated kids, who needs food and water, et cetera) but
> they can't afford to collide with a neighboring community's traffic.
> 144.39 could then be used for inter-community communication of APRS
> traffic with the communities on other frequencies, and Xastir acting
> as the gateway.
> 
> Those are just the first two that pop into my head.
> 
> Jack.
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> Jack Twilley
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