[Xastir] APRS with non APRS equiped stations ?

[William McKeehan]

If you are curious, I created the locations.dat from a GPS tracklog that I had
downloaded from my Garmin GPS II+, then pulling 1 record for every 20 in the
file.

On Thu, December 16, 2004 9:03 am, William McKeehan said:
> Well...
>
> After thinking about this for a bit, I sat down and wrote a bit of Perl script
> (see the attached files).
>
> It takes a locations.dat in the format of
>   LOCATION ID,Lat,Lon
> with Lat and Lon in the typical APRS format of DDMM.MMN. ID should be unique.
>
> It takes a stations.dat file in the format of
>   STATION ID,Icon
> Icon is not yet used and i want to expand this to allow for aliases.
>
> With these files in place, when you run the program, it reads the
> locations.dat and stations.dat; creates a signpost object for each location
> and then waits for user input. The user input is in the format of
>   STATION ID,LOCATION ID, SPEED, COURSE, COMMENTS
> It will then create (or move) an object to the new location with given
> course/speed.
>
> You will want to update test.pl to point to your Xastir server (the server
> port must be enabled for this to work) and update for your callsign/callpass.
>
> To execute this, extract all three files to some directory. In a command
> window (or shell), cd to this directory and execute "perl test.pl".
>
> With the sample data provided, you can watch what it will do by entering the
> following lines in one at a time:
> WJMJEEP,21,,,21
> WJMJEEP,41,,,41
> WJMJEEP,61,,,61
> WJMJEEP,81,,,81
> WJMJEEP,101,,,101
> WJMJEEP,121,,,121
> WJMJEEP,141,,,141
> WJMJEEP,161,,,161
> WJMJEEP,181,,,181
> WJMJEEP,201,,,201
> WJMJEEP,221,,,221
> WJMJEEP,241,,,241
> WJMJEEP,261,,,261
> WJMJEEP,281,,,281
> WJMJEEP,301,,,301
> WJMJEEP,321,,,321
> WJMJEEP,341,,,341
> WJMJEEP,361,,,361
> WJMJEEP,381,,,381
> WJMJEEP,401,,,401
> WJMJEEP,421,,,421
> WJMJEEP,441,,,441
> WJMJEEP,461,,,461
> WJMJEEP,481,,,481
> WJMJEEP,501,,,501
> WJMJEEP,521,,,521
> WJMJEEP,541,,,541
> WJMJEEP,561,,,561
>
> I will probably improve this over the next few weeks...if you have any
> comments/suggestions, please let me know.
>
> --
> William McKeehan
> KI4HDU
> Internet: mckeehan at mckeehan.homeip.net
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