[Xastir] TX to the Internet

[Scott Ryan, AB8KN]

A little bit of digging and a bit of tweaking led me to an APRS server 
that wanted to "talk" and a very big wow factor.  I've been using 
Xastir since about the 1.0 days (4+ years?) and had never bothered to 
take a look at what you could do over the wire.

WOW!

For the curious, I replaced "elansing.aprs.net" with "first.aprs.net" 
and then "indiana.aprs2.net"  all using port 10151.  Things started 
working once I moved from the East Lansing site (probably realized I 
live in Buckeye country).  Once that was working, tried some filtering 
on port 14580 and have now settled with "indiana.aprs2.net" port 14580 
and a filter of "r/40/-83/100" for fun.

A note to those who may be debugging their own connections, start the 
View -> Incomming Data option and make sure Net traffic is selected 
prior to starting the Internet interface.

Thanks, again, for the help.  The more I use this application the more 
it's features blow me away.

73,
Scott, AB8KN

On Apr 30, 2004, at 5:25 PM, Scott Ryan, AB8KN wrote:

> Thanks, Curt, I probably should have tried that before posting to the 
> list.
>
> One more quick question, is port 10151 correct to use for transmit?  I
> understand that this port is unfiltered and there are others to filter 
> to
> limit the traffic received so I'm guessing that 10151 is correct.
>
> Scott
>
>> On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Scott Ryan, AB8KN wrote:
>>
>>> I have configured an Internet
>>> interface and have connected to a fairly local APRS server.  I was 
>>> blown
>>> away by the traffic.  (Yes, I know, filtering would be agood thing.) 
>>>  I
>>> do
>>> have the "allow transmit" or "transmit enable" button selected but my
>>> packets still seem to take the RF route.  All this leads to my 
>>> question:
>>>
>>> Can I use the Internet interface to TX?
>>
>> Yes.  By default, Xastir will transmit on all interfaces that have
>> transmit enabled, assuming your global transmit is also enabled.
>> More than likely you're transmitting both directly to the internet
>> now and to RF.  You could disable transmit on your RF interface to
>> test this out.
>>
>> If you want a way to transmit weather only on the 'net, but transmit
>> your posits on both, we don't have a way to do that, nor is it
>> planned.  You could run two instances of Xastir though, one
>> connected to the internet and your WX station, the other connected
>> to RF and perhaps the internet as well.  If you do that, run them as
>> different users so that they won't fight over the same set of
>> configuration files.
>>
>> --
>> Curt, WE7U			    archer at eskimo dot com
>> Arlington, WA, USA		http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
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>>
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