[Xastir] Re: Why do I only hear stations around here?

[Cap Pennell]

I vote for having a map posit come out onto RF too, as other APRS software
does.  It's worth it just for the "Gee Whiz, this APRS sure can talk a long
way!" PR factor.
But I don't have the skill to code it.
73, Cap KE6AFE

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwaprssig-request at nwaprs.org
> [mailto:nwaprssig-request at nwaprs.org]On Behalf Of Curt Mills
> Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 10:07 AM
> To: James Ewen
> Cc: SIG NWAPRS; xastir at xastir.org
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Re: Why do I only hear stations around here?
>
>
> On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Curt Mills wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, James Ewen wrote:
> >
> > > If my vote counts for anything, I vote to add the position
> > > forwarding to Xastir... I'll even post this over on the Xastir
> > > reflector!
> >
> > Fine (and I see that your message went there).  Please add it to the
> > feature request list, so that people will continually see it until
> > somebody implements it, but you'll need to get one of our Xastir
> > authors interested in implementing it, else it won't ever get done.
> > Yes, I understand that's why you're working on me!
>
> I also wanted to say:  I'm not against having one of our other
> authors (or advanced users) implement it in Xastir.  I'd encourage
> it, as it would then emulate the other igates better.
>
> I just personally have no interest in coding it up myself.  I have
> many other projects that I want to get to but haven't been able to
> find the time for yet.  Most of those are SAR or additional mapping
> projects.
>
> For anyone considering doing the coding, you'd need to keep track of
> all callsigns/SSID's sending messages -> RF via the igate, keeping a
> timer for each.  If the timer expires and another message comes
> through from that station (or it's the first message from that
> station), create a fake APRS packet out of the known position and
> send that through to RF.  If the position isn't known, don't set the
> timer and don't create the fake packet.
>
> --
> Curt, WE7U.				archer at eskimo dot com
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