[Xastir] Status text

[Curt Mills]

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Roger Banks wrote:

> I've got my Xastir station configured to transmit 'Station Position
> /Weather'. I notice when configured this way the only comment that is
> included with the report is 'XRSM'. I can see the logic of such a short
> comment as the wx packet is long enough as it is. My question is whether
> or not there is a way to force Xastir to periodically transmit a
> 'status' packet. A packet without the weather or position information
> but with a more descriptive comment.

Xastir doesn't support a separate status transmission.  As Bob
mentioned, you can accomplish the same thing using beacon, if you're
running an AX.25 kernel networking port.

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