[Xastir] xastir and aprsd

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Bill Bird wrote:

> For transmit I always make sure only one instance of xastir is set to allow
> tranmit so I, 1) don't cause a set of extra ack's if all instances are set to
> KG0YJ and someone sends me an APRS message or 2) I don't have extra confusion
> and RF by having one instance be KG0YJ	, another be KG0YJ-3, and the third
> KG0YJ-4 or some other dash number and they all have the same lat/long - my house.
>
> Is there any way around this so I don't have to turn off tx on one instance
> before I turn it on at another and yet avoid extra RF transmissions?

Not really.  Each one will try to respond if they're the same SSID.
I set each user's SSID to a different number.  I typically only use
one of them for messaging.

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