[Xastir] Corrupt packets?

[J. Lance Cotton]

Kirk Mefford wrote:
> The past day or so I've been seeing a lot of seemingly corrupt packets.
> 
> At the moment I only have a connection to the APRS-IS an no RF.  Most of 
> the stations on my screen have 3-5 call signs stacked at the same 
> location.  When I select "station info" it shows 3-5 stations which are 
> obviously the same station but have various characters missing from the 
> call.  These corrupt calls are not on findu.com so it seems to be a 
> Xastir problem.
> 
> Any one else having this problem or have an idea what's going on?

Are you using Cygwin to run Xastir on windows? Take a look at the callsigns; 
are they missing always the 2nd letter? Does that second letter show up at 
the end of their status line (right-click, view station info)?

I saw both of the above when I was running Xastir via Cygwin on win2k at the 
office a while back. Restarting Xastir or just the interface appeared to fix 
the problem.

-Lance
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