[Xastir] use D700 TNC for xastir and built-in APRS?

[Dennis Hudson, N2LBT]

I think the whole protocol has already been reverse engineered and a 
few text based apps were written to provide some basic aprs 
messaging/memory features but to my knowledge no one has incorporated 
the proprietary instruction set and custom parser into any mainstream 
APRS client applications to date. Sure would be a nice thing to have 
though.

Xastir would seem like a nice fit, because there is good active 
development. But something that would be even cooler to me would be 
PocketAPRS. I inquired about the feature in PocketAPRS but it didn't 
get a big following.



On Jun 21, 2004, at 11:50 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Jason Winningham wrote:
>
>> Is there some way to use the D700 so that I can use the radio's
>> built-in APRS application and feed xastir the data at the same time?
>>
>> It's OK if xastir is in a read-only mode, but it would be really nice
>> to share the TNC with both applications.
>
> I don't own one, so take this with a grain of salt:  I believe the
> answer is no.
>
> I've heard of people hooking up an additional TNC to the MIC/SPKR or
> data port of the radio.  That tends to make me think that you can't
> use the D700 TNC for dual-duty.  They might have been doing that so
> that they could have a TNC on both sides of the radio though.
>
> Hopefully you'll get a very direct yes or no from some Kenwood
> owners.
>
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