[Xastir] APRS with non APRS equiped stations ?

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, William McKeehan wrote:

> I've been thinking about using APRS to assist in an event. The event is a 150
> mile bicycle ride. We will have HAMs running in the lead, along the group, and
> at the end. The group of HAMs that I will be working with will (in general)
> not have APRS running.
>
> At Net Control, I would like to have an easy way to keep track of where
> everyone is. I was thinking about the following.
>
> 1. Generate a list of places along the planned route where each HAM should
> notify Net contol via voice when they pass these places.
> 2. Have a list of callsigns for the participants and their associated tatical
> callsigns (i.e., LEAD, AMBUL, TAIL, SAG1, etc).
>
> Given the above, it should be relatively easy to write a program that will
> take the callsign (real or tatical), their associated waypoint and update
> Xastir (via the server port?).
>
> Has anyone done anything like this?

You could certainly write a program that would generate an object or
item for each of these, selecting from a set of waypoints for the
locations.

Why can't you just drag an object across the screen to the new
location?  That'd save you a lot of work.

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