[Xastir] Xastir and SAR

[Curt Mills]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Alan Crosswell wrote:

> My club has been using APRS a lot (not with Xastir actually but with UIView:-)
> to track vehicles in nuke plant drills, walkathons, bikeathons, etc.  We've been
> asked to do an APRS class for a regional SAR conference in September and while
> I'm comfortable teaching APRS I am not comfortable with the SAR aspects.  I know
> there's been a lot of development on Xastir to support SAR but haven't been
> paying attention to that part of it.  I'd appreciate pointers on what I need to
> learn or even nominations of people who could do a good job of teaching this in
> the Catskill Mountains in NY in September.

New feature as of today:  You can assign a Tactical callsign to any
station on the map via the right-click menu.  It can be up to 19
chars long and contain spaces.  Assign one and that label will be
displayed instead of the callsign.  Blank it out and the callsign
will reappear for that station.  These are not transmitted in any
way currently, but eventually I'd like to send the info out in the
same format as APRS+ does, so we can share tactical labels across
the air.

I'm going to use this feature to label Team 1, DogTeam 2, Tracker 3,
Air 2, etc.

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