[Xastir] Today's activities

[Alan Crosswell]

I eval'd an aircard for a month until the service provider wanted me to start 
paying for the service at $100/month.

I hope you were the *passenger* when you were doing the cvs update:)
/a

Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:
> Just for fun, you might want to snag the track for n5jxs-8 from FindU. 
> This afternoon, WB5BBW and I loaded up 3 PC's (1 Windows, 2 Linux) and 
> set off to do some testing.  I was tracking and linked into the network 
> using a Sierra Wireless AirNet 550 1xRTT card; Kurt was doing large-file 
> transfers (800k-10M) using similar hardware, under Windows and Linux.
> 
> While I was driving between Conroe and Huntsville, TX, on Interstate 45, 
> I did a CVS update, and compiled, installed and restarted xastir.  To 
> the latest CVS.
> 
> Curt, the redraw stuff is cool.
> 
> All the while, we were following our progress on the local GPS attached 
> via serial port.  And viewing the results using Tigermaps with all the 
> bells and whistles turned on.
> 
> It was pretty cool.
> 
> For those interested, the typical FTP transfer rate was 8-8.5 
> kBytes/sec, or, 60-75 kbits/sec per card...
> 
> 73, gerry