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

[Alan Crosswell]

I expect that LIST 01 is the 01 slot in the list of 40 stations that you can 
scroll through by holding F down for a couple of seconds and then hitting the 
list key.

/a

Jason Winningham wrote:
> I connected my laptop to the d700 this morning, fired up kermit, and 
> issued the AI 1 command.  There was a status line for almost anything I 
> did on the control head, and these lines appear to be from updating the 
> 700's built-in APRS app:
> 
> LIST 01,KG4OOL,0622,0851,:,3444390,08639741,/,>, ,04,000000000000,On the 
> road to somewhere :^},110000------
> 
> I'm going to guess that the fields are 
> call,date,time,?,lat,long,?,?,?,?,?,status,?
> 
> Is this some standard format, or would I have to preprocess them to make 
> them look like regular APRS packets before I feed them to xastir?
> 
> I expected to see something like the data that scrolls across the 
> display when I hit "pmon", but it didn't happen.
> 
> Does xastir have to talk to the TNC?  If I make an empty startup file 
> (or one that just contains "AI 1") and disable all transmitting does 
> xastir still  talk to the TNC?
> 
> Something I didn't try (because it just occurred to me) was to try and 
> put the 700 in packet mode (as opposed to APRS mode) and try issuing a 
> command that looks like this "LIST" entry above.  Of course, then I'd 
> have to figure out how to get that data from xastir and back into the 700.
> 
> Another way to accomplish this would be to simply use a sound card type 
> decode on the audio output from the APRS side of the 700.  
> Unfortunately, I haven't seen that for the Mac.
> 
> thanks,
> -Jason
> kg4wsv
> 
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